Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By Subway. On Monday of last week, a thin-nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for...
He had wanted to leave many times before, but President Truman had always kept him on. Now the time was appropriate. The blockade of Berlin was ending. The Western Germans were ready to form their own federal government (see INTERNATIONAL). In Clay's own words, "the punitive phases" of...
A Solid Symbol. For West Pointer Clay, the four years in Germany had been full of trouble, full of achievement, frustration-and plenty of criticism from all sides. The French objected violently to his singleminded, often stubborn determination to put Germany on its feet economically. Germans of all parties considered...
"Holy War." The first opposing witness seemed more apt to help than hinder final passage. Henry Wallace fidgeted and squirmed as he charged that the State Department had kept mum on Russia's offer to end the Berlin blockade for fear it would spoil the treaty's chances...
One Never Knows. For years, department-store credit managers, income-tax investigators and the parents of the girl engaged to the young man upstairs have come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received...