Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important face was missing from the picture: the stern, lined face of George Catlett Marshall (departing Under Secretary Robert Lovett stood in for him). Truman had already taken his leave of Marshall, in characteristic fashion. Ducking out from the White House after lunch one day last week, he flew down to Pinehurst, N.C. for a chatty visit with Marshall, who did not know he was coming. "I needed to see the Secretary of State," said the President, "so I went...
...others, hoped to have a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader] are thinking about. I know they're patriotic, sincere, honest. But how in God's name they can swallow this program is more than I can see. God knows...
...office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim of one of the biggest headhunts in the history of Washington politics...
...finally last autumn, one of his sons-in-law read that the body of a man was lying unclaimed at the city morgue. He investigated. He hurried back, brought Jennie and others of the family. They identified the body instantly. There were two unmistakable red dots on his face, and the second finger of his left hand was twisted as it had always been...
...Heroes." A few moments after Cachin had finished, Edouard Herriot was re-elected president of the Assembly. In his acceptance speech he went right on from where Cachin had left off-just as the Communists hoped he and millions of others would do. Russia and the U.S., said Herriot, "face each other in helmeted defiance, two Homeric heroes." The implication: their quarrel is not Western Europe's-Western Europe should become a third force that would strive for a reconciliation between the giants...