Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilly Dache, dashing Manhattan milliner, came out with a "Yalta Turban" two days after the Crimea Conference. Purely by chance, she explained, pictures of costumes worn in the Black Sea area, had caught her fancy before the site of the Big-Three conference was announced...
...CRIMEA PACT A CRIME-BERLIN
While Franklin Roosevelt was still on tour, a carefully planned campaign was set rolling on the home front to: 1) publicize the Crimea Charter and the President's hand in it; 2) win the friendship of Congress...
Next day, OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes suddenly reappeared in Washington, having made the 6,700-mile trip from Yalta in 38 hours. Without wasting a minute, he called a press conference. It appeared that Jimmy Byrnes's role was to be the official interpreter of the Crimea Charter to the U.S. people and the Congress...
...newsmen, Jimmy Byrnes disclosed some new facts about Franklin Roosevelt's activities in the Crimea (see INTERNATIONAL). He said the President had: 1) chairmanned the conference; 2) devised the compromise on the Dumbarton Oaks voting formula; 3) written the section on treatment of liberated countries. Later the assistant President went to Capitol Hill, talked over Yalta with Senators and Representatives of both parties. Among his guests at a Senate lunch: Montana's articulate, isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who seemed impressed if not satisfied with what he heard...