Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busiest Christmas was probably Dick Lauterbach's in snow-covered Moscow. Christmas Eve there was a get-together for the little American colony-Christmas Day he played Father Frost by distributing precious American soap to the hotel staff-and next day he impersonated Ambassador Harriman in the annual Moscow correspondents' show...
...Christmas Eve the adults at the family gathering clustered in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Library while the President, broadcasting to U.S. armed services around the world on what was announced as history's greatest hookup, prosily summarized and confirmed the headline news and dope stories of the past several weeks. General Eisenhower was to command the U.S.-British invasion of Europe, heavy casualties are to be expected, Mr. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin had "got along fine" at Teheran, they had agreed that in the future international peace would be kept, if necessary, by international force. This was perhaps...
...President distrusts the press, his Christmas Eve broadcast offered no evidence that he trusts the people more. The generalities of his speech were bare-boned in contrast with the detailed reports, confided privately by the President and other Cairo-Teheran conferees, which were flooding Washington and the nation...
From Moscow came another sign that the Soviet cycle from world revolution to nationalism had run its course. On the eve of Joseph Stalin's 64th birthday, the Soviet Union ditched the stirring, incendiary Internationale as the State anthem, substituted an awkward paean to Stalin and the New Russia...
Nationwide public-opinion polls (the Gallup poll, FORTUNE Survey, etc.) are plentiful. But until last week there has never been a poll limited by state boundaries. Then the Des Moines Register and Tribune started one, on the eve of a Presidential election year. Said the Register and Tribune's Publisher Gardner Cowles Jr.: "The Iowa Poll" will measure lowans' views on local issues as well as on questions of national importance...