Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington (D.C.) law firm, did want him to say again that he had no love for Stalin, and above all, wanted to discuss Alger Hiss. Was it true that Hiss was Assistant Secretary Acheson's right-hand man after the period when, according to Congressional spy probers, Hiss was busy in Communist espionage...
...read that the body of a man was lying unclaimed at the city morgue. He investigated. He hurried back, brought Jennie and others of the family. They identified the body instantly. There were two unmistakable red dots on his face, and the second finger of his left hand was twisted as it had always been...
...Scientific Institute of Economic and Social Research, a writer on economics for Léon Blum's Socialist paper, Le Populaire. In 1941 he escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well, e.g., in Belgium...
...refugee-swollen Shanghai a child collapsed on the steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...
...enough for officials to have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...