Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blasted Event. In the Seattle Times appeared a candid ad: "Our pet terrier slipped her chain and so we're peddling pups again. Cockers? Bulldogs? German shepherds? For all we know they may be leopards...
...this field the year's outstanding event was the publishing of the first two volumes of The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray (TIME, Dec. 3). It contained the bulk of Thackeray's correspondence and private papers which had never before been made public. Other outstanding books...
When an army or navy wins a great victory, the general or admiral commanding is the man of the event. When an army of researchers makes the discovery unequaled in all history, and reduces it to practice, why does not that qualify the director of that army for the man of all time...
Justice Jackson's remarkable definition of the military defendants' status was enough to make all professional soldiers lie awake nights: "We recognize that to plan warfare is the business of professional soldiers in every country. But it is one thing to plan strategic moves in the event war comes, and it is another thing to plot and intrigue to bring on that war. . . . Military men are not before you because they served their country. They are here because they mastered it, along with these others, and drove it to war. They are not here because they lost...
...days later Navy Secretary Frank Knox called Richardson in, told him the President was afraid the Japanese might take "drastic action" when Britain re-opened the Burma Road to China. In such an event, Franklin Roosevelt wanted to set up a Navy patrol which would cut off all traffic between Japan and the Americas. The Admiral was "amazed." Stubbornly he began arguing again-the fleet was not ready for such a task. If it tried, war would surely result. Loud, hearty Frank Knox was annoyed. Said he: "Richardson, we have never been ready, but we have always...