Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five days of earnest discussion, filled with friendly give & take, the President of the United States and the Prime Ministers of Britain and Canada came forward last week with a firm proposal on the future of The Bomb. What they said was this...
...originator and designer of this unique and strictly unofficial emblem, Lieutenant Ray H. Northcutt, SG (s), U.S.N.R., fortyish and vice president of a prominent West Coast construction firm, "got religion and joined up," expecting assignment to Seabee construction overseas...
...Russian aims and objectives are satisfactory to Britain, the U.S. and Canada, and are accompanied by a firm statement of Russia's intention to work with UNO-Clement Attlee proposed-the bomb secret will be shared. If not, the secret will be kept, but with a guarantee not to use it except in cooperation with the United Nations...
Policy of Drift. Clement Attlee had arrived at a time when U.S. foreign policy was in a state of flux. The firm tone of President Truman's Navy Day speech was not followed by firm action. Fortnight ago, Pundit Walter Lippmann had complained: "It is quite clear . . . that our foreign relations are not under control, that decisions of the greatest moment are being made in bits and pieces without the exercise of any sufficient overall judgment ... by the President and his chief advisers...
...fine baritone voice, he learned the political ropes as highway commissioner and director of public works under Republican Governors Rolph and Merriam. Just before Merriam was beaten for re-election in 1938, he joined the Bank of America as a vice president. Last spring he started an investment banking firm of his own (First California Co.). He will run far governor, he said, if "support lines up for a real business leadership...