Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of holiday on which most bigwigs of U.S. politics were likely to embark. Involved were no state troopers, autograph seekers, photographers, special trains or big names. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), balding Harold Stassen just got into his 1946 Ford sedan and drove from South St. Paul to Lake Michigan's Sturgeon Bay, with his wife, Esther, his children, Glen, u, and Kathleen, 5, and the family dog, Duke. At the end of the six-hour, 321-mile trip, he lugged suitcases into a small rented cottage, changed into faded Navy khaki and settled down...
...holds out political symbols which Ioom attractive in a leaderless hour to youth of left-center inclination. Furthermore SDA, like ADA, clearly stated at the outset that unlike other organizations' which had fallen into negativist internal battling against men primarily loyal to the Communist Party Line, it would embark upon its adventure explicitly inviting Little Redwing out and defining its direction in terms of Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, and Jefferson. The competition rests with Young Progressive Citizens of America (YPCA) claiming 25 chapters and American Youth for Democracy (AYD) claiming a membership of 5,000 distributed in high schools, colleges...
...First to embark will be members of work-camp projects heading for Italy and Austria, delegates to conferences, and those selected to assist at the Salaburg Summer Seminar. Later sailings will probably be open to individuals planning to study n Europe during the summer or fall, according to Francis D. Fisher '47, Chairman of the Student council International Activities Committee...
Members of the band will converge on Memorial Hall this afternoon at 1 o'clock in full uniform with red coats, gray trousers, and all the trappings to embark in a body for the Cushing concert...
...newspaper and Congressional comment has made explicit what was merely implicit in the lines of his address: the President was not asking the Congress to vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...