Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HERMAN PHLEGER, 62, to be legal adviser to the Secretary of State. A prominent San Francisco lawyer (Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison), a graduate of the University of California and Harvard Law School, he is a director of numerous banking and business enterprises (American Trust, Union Oil. Moore Dry Dock, Matson Navigation, etc.), a trustee of Stanford. He served as a Navy lieutenant in World Wrar I, and as a legal expert with the U.S. occupation forces in post-World War II Germany...
Brannan's action brought quick protests from abroad. Canada's National Dairy Council proposed retaliation in the form of a ban on U.S. vegetable oils used in margarine. Said the Swedish Dairy Association's export boss Bengt Dock: "This is an example of giving to Europe with one hand and taking with the other." Harry Truman sought to make political propaganda. Said he: "This is the kind of law which makes the job of the Kremlin's propaganda experts a great deal easier...
Three Days of Golf. The heavy cruiser nosed up to Baker Dock in Pearl Harbor. Ike stood in the Hawaiian sunshine on the main deck. Tanned and fit, he came ashore to a rousing welcome, complete with honor guard, hula dancers, a lei of red carnations, and a motorcade tour of Honolulu...
Through the centuries, the church where Pocahontas was buried, St. George's at Gravesend, fell into disrepair; Gravesend itself, a Thames dock area, became a rundown parish. But in 1947, a new vicar, the Rev. Richard Daunton-Fear, arrived and began an energetic campaign to restore the parish churches. Last week, after four years of fundraising, St. George's Church, newly named a "Chapel of Unity," was rededicated. It is now a spruce Georgian structure with arched windows and a fine Jacobean altar rail...
Since crossing the Panama Canal the Miru has been making its way up the east coast. Before its arrival at Wilmington yesterday the Coast Guard had last reported the craft at St. Simon's Island, Ga., on the 17th of this month. Spaulding said the Miru will probably dock at Boston in a week's time if the weather permits navigation...