Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
Even in tranquil Rhodes, U.N.'s Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and the local one-sheet newspaper suggested that Bernadotte compose the quarrel. (Bernadotte was too busy.) Apart from that, all was serenity in the Dodecanese island which Bernadotte had chosen for his Palestine peace talks. Governor General Nicholas Mavris welcomed correspondents, many straight from embattled Palestine: "Now you have been able to discover an oasis of peace...
Said jobless Tom Buchanan: "To Mrs. Roosevelt and to all whose advice has been, 'stand up and be counted,' I now reply that I am on my feet. It is time for them to stand up and be counted, too." When Washington Guildsmen stood up last week, the preliminary count was 251 to 163 in favor of doing nothing for Communist Buchanan...
...bill does not spell it out, but committee members say that internships and hospital residencies may count as "active practice...
...will ever know the full story of Dunkirk-"the greatest evacuation in the history of war." Many ships went to the bottom carrying eyewitnesses, logs and records with them. Many rescuers lost "all count of times and days," and after bringing home their load of men, collapsed in sleep and never recaptured a clear remembrance of their work. But British Naval Analyst A. D. Divine (who skippered the yawl Little Ann in the great evacuation) has tried to collect every available account, and to place each one in its proper place within the great, overall story. He has succeeded...