Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewing stand of Washington's Army Day parade, new Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and the Commander in Chief shared a secret that the marchers knew nothing about. When the parade was over, Johnson announced that, so far as he was concerned, that was the last Army Day. If Congress approved, the cherished Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force Days would be unified into a single "Armed Forces Day." Swallowing hard...
...towards unifying the armed forces. But there were plenty of skeptics who asserted that unity was still only headline-deep. Last week as his No. 1 assistant, publicity-conscious Louis Johnson surprised everybody by picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack either as an administrator or as a military mind, he certainly made...
...thing these days was as sure as death & taxes: the Government is going to pay the farmer to keep him prosperous. Long ago a Republican Congress tried to buy the farmer's vote with the McNary-Haugen bill, but Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics...
...strode into the hall amid frenetic cheers from 1,642 delegates to the third Congress of the Yugoslav People's Front. While his followers stamped and cried "Tito, Tito!", he mounted the platform and put on his reading glasses. Then, as virulent as ever, he shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything...
...Ireneo Fernando Cruz, realistic rector of the budding University of Cuyo, had organized the Congress of Philosophy. Object: to boost the prestige of Argentina and its government, on which all Argentine universities depend for handouts...