Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally found a job for his old friend and Washington State's ex-governor, Mon Wallgren: chairman of the National Security Resources Board, at $14,000 a year...
...Attorney General. I don't know of any inherent right of the President to get injunctions in a national emergency. If you want to do that you ought to say so in so many words ... in clear law." Oregon's waspish Lawyer Wayne Morse, a Republican friend of labor, agreed with Taft...
...boys in the division's 152nd Field Artillery Battalion called their friend "Little Joe from Pozorrubio." Little Joe stuck with them through six months of combat. But when the 43rd moved on to occupation duty in Japan, José went sadly back to work in the rice paddies...
...little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...youth, with unflinching spirit, with uncommon intelligence. His scientific interest in his illness was enormous-even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special. When, after Johnny's first operation, the surgeon told him what he had, Johnny telephoned his friend, Reviewer Lewis Gannett, and reported proudly: "They drilled three holes right through my head." Two weeks later he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein on the curvature of the universe. When the Book-of-the-Month Club picked Gunther's then unfinished Inside U.S.A. (written largely during the costly attempts...