Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...77th Extraordinary Session of the Imperial Diet bowed itself into history on Nov. 21, 1941. The world then saw no hint in the reported proceedings of an event scheduled for Dec. 7. Later the double-talk about "immutable resolution" and "exhaustible patience" proved to have great meaning...
...they have done in the past, the men across the river will welcome their sisters in arms with a "get-together" party. The event will be held next Saturday in Potter auditorium at the Business School with the WAVES and Supply officers expected to attend on masse...
...coast between Oslo and Knstiansand is a promising place to strike in Norway. Good beaches, space for maneuver, highways and railways leading into the interior are available. But the sea route from Britain is difficult, exposed to air attack for 500 miles. In any event, a movement against southern Norway should be supported by simultaneous, diverting actions against the western and northern coast. Probable opposition: six to 14 German divisions...
...Russian Revolution, "the most colossal event in history since the Reformation," was the forerunner of revolutionary changes still due in the Western world. Despite its merciless dictatorship, its leaders' intense will to power and intense suspicion of any outlook which deviates from their own, if Russia "is able to show that the private ownership of the means of production is unnecessary," it will have opened a new and creative epoch in human experience...
Oldtimers on Capitol Hill could not recall a similar event. All of the Congresswomen, the entire delegation from Maine and about 30 members of the press had been invited. The Speaker and other House leaders were asked to drop in. The place: the Capitol dining room of the Speaker of the House. The occasion: a luncheon, given by Maine Congresswoman Margaret Smith, for Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, Washington correspondent for 17 years and now the new president of the Women's National Press Club...