Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless the President found a man of equally strong mind and good wind to take Nourse's place, Leon Keyserling from now on would be in full charge of economic advice...
...When his good and wealthy friend, Willys-Overland Executive Ward Canaday, asked him to attend a businessman's dinner party at the Statler Hotel last week, Harry Truman obligingly agreed. He was under the impression that no more than 15 or 20 men would attend, and that he would not be obliged to speak. At dinnertime, he got into his dinner jacket, slipped quietly over to the hotel for a few hours of comfortable relaxation...
Abroad. In international affairs, the 81st's record-like the 80th's−was good. Under bipartisan leadership, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty,, the first peacetime alliance with European nations in U.S. history, and a $1 billion program to help arm the alliance. After a seizure of quibbling, Congress authorized a generous $5.4 billion appropriation for EGA. The hobbling "peril-point" amendment was struck off the reciprocal-trade program, and the authority extended two years. The 81st also gave U.S. defense all that the President had asked-and decided that he had not asked enough...
...said afterward, "I hadn't the least idea of what was coming off. I snuggles down in the bushes and takes out my roscoe. I swear if one of them had got between me and the white steps, so's I could have a good target, I'd have let him have...
...their confidence in their leadership." As for admirals risking their careers to carry their case to the public, Bradley snapped: "I would like to offer some impartial advice to all aspiring martyrs: to be successful in a sacrifice, he must be 100% right . . . His sacrifice must be for the good of the entire nation...