Word: doors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure of Jim Forrestal closed the door on the last Cabinet member Harry Truman inherited from Roosevelt, and one of Washington's ablest officials. Forthright Jim Forrestal had angered the Zionists, embarrassed Democratic strategists with his Wall Street background, and refused to politick for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign...
...Michael & the Zoot-Suits. Ash Wednesday Eve I drove through the most devastated streets of Munich, through rubble lanes barely wide enough for a car to pass, to a factory standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish six-room apartment, slyly constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues...
Each House will run a separate fundraising drive sometime in the seven weeks before May 1, deadline for signing the assurance papers necessary to guarantee support of the DP's. Eliot House, which began its drive last Tuesday, has already collected a substantial part of its total through door-to-door solicitation...
Leverett has decided to solicit door-to-door before vacation; Adams will begin April 17; Dunster plans tentatively to sell "DP corsages" at its March 26 formal. The remaining House have fixed no dates...
Several hundred shivering students cheered the smoke-eaters as they lofted ladders and spotlights to the top floor of Little Hall, smashed in the front door of the book store, and evacuated all resident students from the Massachusetts Avenue block...