Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived. A blonde secretary arrived. ECA began to hum. Hoffman rushed off to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, met Moore and the others later in the old State Department building, where they took possession of four high-ceilinged rooms which had once been the suite of General John Pershing...
...White House, Harry Truman barely had time to wash up a bit before playing host to a royal visitor: Belgium's Regent Charles-Theodore-Henri-Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders. Prince Charles arrived amid a din of sirens. He wore the khaki uniform of a major general, was accompanied by Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. A tall young man with a penchant for playing ping-pong, he looked rather bored...
...Carey, David Dubinsky, et al.) could not bring themselves to a flat endorsement of Candidate Truman, but they let him down with some sugary words ("We appreciate his brave rearguard action in defense of our social and labor legislation"). They settled on a statement which said, in effect: "Please, General Eisenhower, rescue...
...happened that General Ike looked in on Candidate Truman at the White House last week. Had they talked politics? No, said Ike, defense plans. Would he run for President? "I wrote a letter and I meant every word of it," replied Ike. It was another "No"-but every time he said it, more & more Democrats hopefully interpreted it as "Maybe." Said Florida's Senator Claude Pepper: "He may be pulling the door a little closer to him, but I didn't hear the lock click...
...Palmiro's strength even better was Giuseppe di Vittorio, brassknuckled labor leader, who controls most of Italy's labor unions; through them he can cripple Italy's entire industry. This week, as a small sample of what he could do, he led a one-hour nationwide general strike. If the Communists decide to use strikes and sabotage rather than open violence, Di Vittorio would...