Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overriding subject of U.S. interest was still, as at any given moment since Hiroshima, the atom bomb. Never before since the pollsters set up shop had one topic evoked such continuous, prolonged, intense public concern. Nothing-not the homecoming of the heroes, not strikes nor reconversion, the Pearl Harbor investigation, the housing shortage nor this week's Big Three meeting, not even Santa Claus -had been able to drive the bomb from topmost place in the U.S. mind...
...Pearl Harbor Committee's mild, punctilious Counsel William DeWitt Mitchell, who served ably and loyally under Republican Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, could no longer hide his impatience. In quiet anger, he announced that he and his assistants would quit their thankless jobs at year...
High Aims. After seven days as a witness in the Pearl Harbor inquiry, General of the Army George C. Marshall got off by plane to Chungking and his new mission: to bring an end to China's civil strife, to seek unity of her dissident factions. President Truman put on official record the new, clear policy which Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China, has wanted, and which Special Envoy George Marshall had helped frame (TIME, Dec. 10). Two major points were made even more explicit: 1) U.S. forces will remain in China to help Generalissimo Chiang...
Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment of his dreams, until it turned into desk duty. When a commander was picked for the great central Pacific offensive in 1943, not Jack Towers but Battleshipman Raymond Ames Spruance...
...Chiang Kai-shek's Government. The Nationalist Army organ Ho Ping Pao reported that the Russians had granted permission for Chiang's forces to occupy I) Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...