Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priority. Apparently somebody at the White House-possibly tired of wasting good red ration stamps on the meat-eating animal-had asked A.T.C. to ship the dog to Hollywood. So Blaze automatically received the White House priority. General George, red-faced and harassed, swore it would never happen again...
...lawsuit was as hard to explain as his suits against many another big war producer-e.g., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp. About all these companies could do was to go on producing, while they waited to see what would happen next. Some of Biddle's flamboyant legal ventures-e.g., the abortive mass trial of alleged seditionists in Washington, his garishly publicized attempt to close up a Washington call-house-have come grotesque croppers. But the cartel and trade agreements suits might be more carefully handled, more determinedly pursued...
...started not by a direct attack against international cooperation, but against the alleged imperfections of the peace. . . . We gave up the hope of gradually achieving a better peace because we had not the courage to fulfill our responsibilities in an admittedly imperfect world. We must not let that happen again. . . . We can fulfill our responsibility for maintaining the security of our own country only by exercising our power and our influence to achieve the principles in which we believe...
...after the Allies had got themselves enmeshed in the Westwall offensive, something seemed to happen. Weather was admittedly bad for ambitious air operations. Ground commanders pressed hard for more air support of infantry to supplement their artillery. For one reason or another, tactical air power turned largely to bombing of pillboxes, strafing of enemy gun positions...
...fierce campaign to bring the Negro problem to people's attention rather than let it be hushed up. "People say there's going to be even greater strife after the war," he stated, "but why don't they do something about it instead of just waiting for it to happen...