Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, J. H. Neale hired a tug, chuffed down the harbor, roared greetings through a megaphone to his homecoming...
...writing you without the knowledge of any other person except Admiral King (who concurs) because we are approaching a grave dilemma in the political reactions of Congress regarding Pearl Harbor...
...object of 74-year-old Cordell Hull's wrath was the Army Investigating Board's Pearl Harbor report (TIME, Sept. 10). The report, branding his note to the Japs on Nov. 26, 1941 as an "ultimatum," had gone on to say: "It was the document that touched the button that started the war, as Ambassador Grew so aptly expressed...
Before the Pearl Harbor Committee last week, Cordell Hull was asked what he thought about this sentence. His tired voice scarcely rose but the words crackled ominously: "If I could express myself as I would like, I would want all of you religious-minded persons to retire from the room...
After that, the corroboration of Joseph C. Grew, the pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to Tokyo, was an anticlimax: "[The Hull note] was in no respect an ultimatum.... I never said the Hull reply touched the button. I never understood how the board got that impression...