Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks it had bugled announcements of a forthcoming Big Four conference, which would go to work on a rough draft of the Great Blueprint for Peace (TIME, June 12.)* Stately old Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington's fashionable Georgetown, was made ready down to the last pebble on its carefully graveled walks. The U.S. had named its Under Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius, as chairman of the U.S. delegation, thus, in diplomatic language, hoping to underscore its view-that other representatives should be at the important level of Under Secretaries. England and China followed suit, appointed the veteran Permanent...
...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...
...Finns. Handsome, clever and soon divorced, Minister Procopé became the ideal extra man at dinner almost as soon as he arrived in 1939. When he finally eloped with the niece of a British countess (he was 50, she 29), hearts broke all over Washington, from Chevy Chase to Georgetown. Minister Procopé's popularity was more than personal. He represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S. (he paid an installment just 24 hours before he was expelled). Finland, too, was then the brave little nation which...
...insure the President's isolation, 65 Marines and 40 Secret Service men stood guard. Some were spaced along the fence that surrounds Hobcaw. Others guarded the lonely, forested 4½ miles of choppy sand road that leads to the highway to Georgetown, ten miles away. Several of the Marines had been at Guadalcanal, and knew how to drive off mosquitoes at night with small fires of pine cones. Their only excitement came when four Nazi prisoners escaped in Georgia; Hobcaw kept close track of the manhunt, until the last two Germans were caught at Columbia...
Boss of the Fifth Ward. Mike Scat is one of the more fragrant characters in U.S. municipal politics. Son of an Italian junk dealer, he went to high school and Georgetown University. Before he finished college, Frank Hague called him home to boss the Fifth Ward, where most of Jersey City's 70,000 Italians live...