Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wisp of an imperial closed shop. Bevin took another poke at the rich old bogey of the U.S. "I know these Americans will be upset," he said, "but I've got to upset somebody. My own conviction is that she handicapped herself ... by failure to redistribute the Fort Knox gold ... to assist in increasing the purchasing power of the devastated areas of the world...
Economists on both sides of the Atlantic promptly reminded Bevin that U.S. wealth lay in its high productivity, not in its gold hoard at Fort Knox. Bevin knew that a higher standard of living for Britain ultimately depended on increasing Britain's own productive capacity, not on "purchasing power...
Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the friendly exchange of letters between the White House and the Vatican, later reported to the press a jolly conversation. He told the Pope, said he, that U.S. Baptists were really afraid the Pope might make a Roman Catholic out of Baptist Harry S. Truman. The Pope, said Norris, threw...
...band and the long columns of troops swung in review, the dust rose over the parade ground at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The man who took the salute, a lame, lanky, partially deaf General with a strained look about the eyes, was reviewing his last parade as an active officer. He was Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, veteran of 45 years of Army service, and the symbol of both U.S. unpreparedness and victory in the Pacific...
...just one week past the Army's compulsory retirement age of 64. Since his return from a Japanese prison camp in 1945, he had done two tours of duty: one as Commanding General of the Eastern Defense Command, the other as Commanding General of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston and the Eighth Service Command at Dallas. Actually, he had spent most of his time touring and speaking on Army promotion projects. Now he could slow down...