Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department was buzzing with vim & vigor last week, and its collective face was wreathed in smiles of jolly good fellowship. Painters slapped pistachio green on the drab cream walls of State's drafty old home on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. A panting porter lugged away Cordell Hull's cherished rubber plant. Under scaffolds and around carpet-menders, platinum-topped Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius bustled like a busy host at a party. He invited the press to the swearing-in of five of his six new top aides,* whom he fondly calls his team...
First there was a little talk about the "spirit of good fellowship," then 32 boxers went to work on each other. The Allied boxing championships had moved up from Algiers to Rome's Brancaccio Theater...
...Barcelona and the Spanish War, was bombed again in Brussels in 1940, got out of Belgium just a jump ahead of the Nazis, then worked for months in occupied Paris and collaborating Vichy ("I began to feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage of the year for his eyewitness story of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst...
...eternally condemned any race of humanity. . . . [But] there is going to be stern punishment for all those in Germany directly responsible for this agony of mankind. The German people are not going to be enslaved. . . . But it will be necessary for them to earn their way back into the fellowship . . . of law-abiding nations. And in their climb up that steep road, we shall certainly see to it that they are not encumbered by having to carry guns...
...Kaiser, wondered what kind of Western rope trick this was. Just what was he cooking up with Gandhi, and did he have any "political aspirations?" To the first question, Gib Sandefer drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...