Word: deale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually there might be some jettisoning of Cabinet members not in full sympathy with the "Second New Deal." But nobody knew better than Harry Truman that for the four-year term he had earned for himself he would need tough and able men high in public confidence. A vengeful victor might have kicked out Jim Forrestal, who had not raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard...
...Treasure of a far more valuable kind remains on Bora Bora; the So-odd children of Bora Bora mothers by unknown Army and Navy fathers. They are healthy, sturdy youngsters, and probably a great deal happier than nine-tenths of the children elsewhere in the world. Whether born in or out of wedlock, no island child ever goes into an orphan asylum. There are no such institutions down here...
...Sian generals demanded that he fight Japan. When he refused to listen to "demands," they made him a prisoner. For two weeks, while the world wondered if he were dead, Chiang stonily refused to deal with his captors. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He raged because his government in Nanking did not blast Sian from the air. "Why don't they bomb us!" he repeated over & over...
Part of the price the U.S. had paid Joseph Stalin at Yalta was a promise that the U.S. would support Russia's bid for a "special position" in Manchuria: control of the South Manchurian Railroad, Dairen and Port Arthur. Told about this deal months later, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly accepted. Further, when the Russians marched into Manchuria, three days after the atom bomb on Hiroshima, they disarmed the Japanese, then handed the arms to the Chinese Communists. Chiang was not surprised. Even when both he and the Reds were arrayed against the Japanese, Chiang used to say: "The Japanese...
Student delegations from colleges in the New England area will deal with the theme "The Student and the Task of the Church" from the viewpoint of the following religious groups: YMCA, YWCA, Student Volunteer Movement, College Chapel and Administration Association, and the Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Churches...