Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American to operate effectively as Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff would have been a delicate operation at best. Stilwell in his diary quotes George Marshall as telling him, "Get the various factions together and grab command and in general give 'em the works." Whether Marshall said that or not, that is the way Stilwell went about his task...
...Em Eat Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
With a canvassing and clerical force of almost 500 mobilized here and at Radcliffe, Samuel M. Robbins '45, newly-designated chairman of the University branch of the World Student Service Fund for the rehabilitation of foreign scholarship, promised last night that "we'll make 'em forget what apathy feels like," in pressing for a $20,000 quota...
...diners went wild. "Go get 'em, Ad!" screamed jubilant party functionaries. When it was all over, veteran Chicago newsmen knew that a dazzling political star had been born. Wrote Sun & Timesman John Dreiske: "He was a smash hit. There once were those who gloomily opined he should not travel in the same caravan with Paul H. Douglas [Democratic candidate for Senator] because of the danger [that] he would be eclipsed by that brilliant orator. Put away your handkerchiefs. Don't cry for Stevie...
...Grundy in Politics. Here was the other side of appeasement's coin. Kiss 'em or kill 'em, but don't come to grips with reality. Don't let the troops in Greece fire a shot-somebody might get hit. Don't worry about essential oil supplies in the Middle East-somebody might make a profit. Don't get into the China war-the government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy...