Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain, argued the Führer then and in later letters, must come in without conditions. Wrote he: "For about one thing, Caudillo, there must be a clarity: we are at this time fighting a battle of life and death and cannot at this time make any gifts." Franco drew himself up, replied: "I stand ready at your side, entirely and decidedly at your disposal, united in a common historical destiny, desertion from which would mean my suicide and that of the cause which I have led and represent in Spain...
...Ottawa's Citizen noted that "four individuals . . . with Russian-sounding names" had registered at an Ottawa hotel. Officialdom had an attack of jitters too. Trumpeted Ontario's Premier George Drew: ". . . The time has not come when Canada is going to accept as its national emblem the hammer & sickle...
...Urey, noted University of Chicago chemist and a leader in the Manhattan Project, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Congresswoman from California, and Norman Corwin, radio writer whose "Set Your Clock at U-235" has forcefully dramatized the menace of atomic destruction. His address, liberally gingered with the Shapley wit, drew a tremendous ovation...
...called "Around the World in Cleveland," new and jawbreaking names began to appear in the Press. Known in the office either as the "Hunky" or "broken-English" editor, to whom every mustached office visitor was automatically referred, Andrica worked tirelessly to promote giant dance festivals and international exhibits (one drew 150,000 people), organized a Council for American Unity to break down the barriers between neighbors. The competition decided it had been missing...
Died. Cornelius Johnson, 29, Negro high-jumper, 1936-41 co-holder (with Negro Dave Albritton) of the world's record; after a two-week bender in San Francisco. His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in Paradise...