Word: harborers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notice of the idealists then fashioning a new world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor it began to move into high gear. On February 25, 1943, it was reorganized with a director [and] assistant, two grand divisions of five sections each, a staff of geographers and philologians, and a working force of 110 altogether. During the war years it naturally gave most of its attention...
...dozens of Congressmen and Senators continued to cry angrily for a more stringent embargo against Russia; some for a complete halt of all shipments to the U.S.S.R. Thousands of U.S. citizens, who bitterly recalled pre-Pearl Harbor scrap shipments to Japan, agreed wholeheartedly...
...immediately. One Clarence Carruthers, president of a New York aeronautical supply firm, told a House subcommittee that "everybody in New York knew there were boxes and bales marked for Russia lying all over the waterfront." He added: "They've brought 60 Soviet flag ships into New York harbor since the first of the year and loaded them with everything from tractors to electric generators...
...Them Rant." In Washington's confusion after Pearl Harbor, Stilwell almost got the assignment which would have developed into command of the North African expedition. If the acid of his insecure and suspicious personality had been poured over U.S.-British relations, calamity might have come more dramatically. Stilwell's contempt was not confined to the Chinese government. In his diary and letters he sneered at the British, at Washington, at Mountbatten and at Chennault, who had been in China four years before Stilwell got there...
...fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend-Lease liaison officer and a member of President Roosevelt's five-man Pearl Harbor investigating committee...