Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the clouds cleared away. The striking coal miners went back to work (see below). New York Harbor's rebellious longshoremen decided that their strike could not possibly break the iron rule of Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan; ships moved out again after 18 days of idleness...
Having fulfilled the nation's new "manifest destiny," in 1899 ships of the U.S. Fleet sailed in triumph into New York Harbor. Cuba had been liberated; the Philippines had been seized. The U.S. had ended its isolation from the world and become a great naval power. Thanks were due to Admiral George Dewey-in whose honor New York City decorated its buildings and declared a two-day holiday-and to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, who had fought horse, foot and dragoon (as prewar Assistant Secretary) to modernize the Navy and make...
Nineteen years later, on a foul winter's day, New York Harbor became the scene of another celebration, when the battleships of the Atlantic Fleet returned, their manifest destiny also fulfilled. The world had been made safe for democracy (folks said) and Woodrow Wilson was off for the Versailles Conference...
...power of attack." Navymen put it this way: "Our mission is to wage the peace around the world." Not even Theodore Roosevelt had suggested such a manifest destiny. It was a reversal of the traditional U.S. policy -never to attack until attacked - which culminated in the Pearl Harbor disaster and the destruction of Douglas MacArthur's army and air force in the Philippines. It implied a nation ever on the alert, ready to strike before it was struck...
...thought they knew how to bridge the perilous fission between these ideas met at Dublin, N.H. They were invited by four distinguished citizens: former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts; Grenville Clark, a New York attorney who did much to sell conscription to the U.S. public before Pearl Harbor; Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire (1911-13) and Bull-Moose friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas H. Mahony, a locally prominent Boston lawyer and internationalist...