Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gently but firmly, Britain's Lord Halifax came to the Big Powers' defense. "These documents," said he, "represent the highest point of agreement among the Big Five and they cannot be further modified." Barked Connally to the objectors: "Do you want to tear up the charter?" To emphasize...
Ahead lay coastal Tutong, 25 miles away, then the Seria-Miri oilfields, a rich prize 25 miles further. But beetle-browed Lieut. General Sir Leslie Morshead, tactical commander, was not deceived by the easy beginning. Ahead lay rivers, mountains, swamps and lurking Japanese. Predicted Morshead: "A tedious and arduous campaign...
Koch: "I signed a written statement in jail. What need is there of further questioning?"
As a further concession to local and foreign pressure, the Argentine Government had already announced that it would free its political prisoners. It actually freed some 265. Invited back from exile in Montevideo was Argentina's revered elder statesman, walrus-mustached Alfredo Palacios, a vigorous antifascist, to resume his...
The Blue network last week gave up its plain name and took a fancy one: the American Broadcasting Co. It had wanted to go a little further and call itself ABC -but two ABCs were there first (Arizona Broadcasting Co., Michigan's Associated Broadcasting Corp.) If the public, however...