Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was Harold Knutson of Minnesota, due to be chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, which handles all tax and tariff legislation. Before Pearl Harbor, Knutson opposed nearly every defense measure, once proclaimed: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might be emulated by statesmen of other countries...
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize Novelist John P. Marquand remarked: "These are hard times for a writer to find anything to write about because the world is changing so fast that any contemporary subject is likely to be outdated by the time it is published." That didn't prevent him from writing the best-selling So Little Time. Nor does it now keep him from using the very confusions induced by a fast-changing world as the theme of his new novel, B.F.'s Daughter. It might well have been called So Little...
Hotels and lodging houses within a 50-mile radius received bulletins from Christy's office in this morning's mail with a full description of the vanished Freshman, but not word has been heard as yet from the alerted room clerks. Equally unproductive have been river-bank and harbor draggings in the Boston Basin...
Their only worry was that so good a life could not last. On porches overlooking the improbable blue harbor of Port-au-Prince, the 200 or more members of the American colony in Haiti basked in a New World Majorca, living like nabobs on $300 a month, and comfortably...
Early one morning this week, New York's harbor was a well-planned bedlam of whistles, sirens and bells. Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being...