Word: errand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general staff's estimate of the situation. The issue was resolved in a long conference between Marshall and Under Secretary Acheson. Terms of the resolution: General Marshall finally accepted what was essentially the Vincent-Acheson draft. With the blessing of the President, Marshall flew off on his errand...
...years American News has been distributing TIME to dealers like these throughout the U.S. This long association, covering all of TIME'S existence, was brought home to us this month by the retirement of Michael A. Morrissey, board chairman of American News (see cut), who began as an errand boy 49 years ago. He was assistant general manager in 1923 when TIME was founded, and courageously agreed to distribute 5,000 copies of TIME'S first issue. He sold half of them. Last week his company sold nearly 300,000 copies of TIME in the U.S. and Canada...
...grueling assignment; the appointment of Marshall was "a reaffirmation of the tragic policy of this Administration in encouraging Chinese Communism." Taft was talking about Marshall's mission to China in 1946 to effect a truce between the Nationalists and the Reds-an errand that, though doomed from the start by the essential nature of Communism, was carried out so doggedly by Marshall that it left China naked to the Reds...
...Boston's Community Chest fund, hit him for a contribution. Smith was impressed by Kelley Anderson's background, and two years later Anderson joined New England as a director. Anderson, who first learned finance from his farmer-banker father, worked his way through college, then became an errand boy in an engineering firm because "there wasn't much choice about jobs...
Twisting and turning, she took her audience with her on her Errand into the Maze, the soul's fight against fear. After that one, Martha took seven curtain calls. But as she proceeded with her company into other labyrinthine concepts, such as Eye of Anguish and Cave of the Heart, the applause dwindled. At the finale, most of the bravos came from U.S. fans...