Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, No. 1 polar explorer of the past two decades, prepared at 58 to retire from the Navy. He had a new job awaiting him as a director of a South Carolina cotton textile firm...
...Henry Wallace's Sept. 12. 1946 Madison Square Garden speech-which ran completely counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great length and discovered, to his increased dismay, that Wallace...
...Pathan watchman from the North-West Frontier Province thought he might have to go back to the barren soil of his native district. "The Hindu who owns the firm where I work has given me notice, saying he cannot trust foreigners to guard his shop. Who will give me jobs now? What will happen to my family...
...spate of glowing publicity pictures and handouts on Trujillo-land has been cluttering editorial desks. And as his U.S. legal representative (registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Section), Dictator Trujillo has hired onetime New Dealing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' Washington law firm (Cummings & Stanley...
Over in the State Department, Secretary of State George Marshall studied plans for deploying U.S. dollars. For the moment, the hasty barricades in Greece and Turkey held firm. Behind them, George Marshall was counting reserves, regrouping forces, working out strategy...