Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fact. The Chinese Government asked Donald to establish a Bureau of Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...over, Bailey moved that the Senate go into executive session to vote on the confirmation of Henry Wallace. Such a motion is not debatable. If passed, it meant that the Senate would certainly turn Henry Wallace down. This was the showdown. Did the anti-Wallacemen have the votes? To gather them all, they had persuaded Nevada's pale, ailing James Scrugham, 65, to leave Naval Hospital, had brought him to the chamber in a wheel chair...
Biggest Pan Am thorn is that, bit by bit, TACA may gather the operating rights to knit its South American system together. A new TACA affiliate is getting under way in Paraguay, and one is on paper in Argentina, awaiting more favorable diplomatic weather. Unless TACA loses its market-South & Central America's need for a poor man's airline-more are likely to follow...
Late in the morning, on the lawn where the children had played, the crowd began to gather. Diplomats had been told to leave their frock coats at home, and did. Only two top hats were visible: on Charles M. Dale, a Governor (New Hampshire), and on George Jessel, a comedian. The crowd came in overcoats and galoshes, sloshed about in mud and slush...
...lost an arm, even walking may be difficult at first, because of the change in his body balance. But the first day is made a thrilling occasion; when a man with an artificial leg is ready to walk without crutches or cane, the hospital staff and his fellow patients gather round, turn on music, applaud his first solo steps and his surprised, delighted smile...