Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman made a determined personal effort to get what he wanted. He called the Committee's Democrats to the White House for a dose of the sort of persuasion Franklin Roosevelt used to exert. President Truman seemed resentful. He said the Senate had let him down. He expected that the House would not do the same. He stood pat on his program. He was no longer the "good old Harry" who liked to visit the Hill and chum with his old cronies. He was aggressively Mr. President...
Added the President: "I am communicating directly with the British Government in an effort to have the doors of Palestine opened to such of these displaced persons as wish to go there." There was good reason to suppose that the President had spoken to Prime Minister Attlee as emphatically as he had to General Eisenhower-but no suggestion that the U.S. was prepared to take any real responsibility for Palestine...
...other still sends regular contributions-"for the peace effort...
...week when Henry Lewis Stimson ended his public career, men debated whether the Bomb, the bombing or seapower had won the war. But they agreed, in paying tribute to the retiring Secretary of War, that by his own effort he had done much to cut the war's fearful cost...
...occupation of Germany was entering a new phase. By partitioning eastern Germany, the Allies had destroyed the old Reich. By quartering what was left into occupation zones, the Allies had quadrupled their problems and troubles. Last week the victors reached across their respective zonal boundaries, began an effort to treat the new Germany as a unit...