Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman. With his very first words, the President's 25,217,500 listeners* heard a Truman they had never heard before. Said he: "The crisis of Pearl Harbor was the result of action by a foreign enemy. The crisis tonight is caused by a group of men within our own country...
...Confirmed the appointments of: 1) Pennsylvania's Congressman John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71? to $1.29 an ounce within two years...
...soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...
...good faith before the U.S. signs any inter-American defense treaty with him. But Messersmith sniffed success: the Argentine Government had finally got round to raising the state of siege and restoring the civil liberties that had been in suspension-with two brief exceptions-since right after Pearl Harbor...
...York harbor, the Washington, one of the two largest U.S. passenger liners, was getting ready to sail for England. At the last minute the sailing was canceled. Reason: the United States Lines, which runs the Washington for the War Shipping Administration, had refused to fire an assistant purser whom the crew, members of the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, did not like. So members of the N.M.U. refused to sign on the Washington. The War Shipping Administration ordered the Washington sent to a shipyard for reconversion to peacetime travel...