Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morrison has surrounded himself with a tight "general staff" of economists and technicians (among them Patrick Gordon-Walker, formerly history don at Christ Church College, Oxford, and Douglas Jay, formerly financial editor of the Daily Herald); with them he plans the execution of Labor's nationalization strategy. Morrison usually works till after midnight; afterwards he sometimes dances (he learned how late in life) into the small hours...
...drawer messages were heavy with the economic lore behind the $3,750,000,000 credit and its wedded trade agreements. During the final five-day debate the House focused more attention on political expediency. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "The honorable gentlemen no longer have their minds on the arguments; they have their fingers on the popular pulse...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back at their bomb-nicked Cap d'Antibes chateau, royally entertained a group of U.S. reporters on an Air France publicity junket. Bubbled the New York Herald Tribune's food editor, Clementine Paddle-ford: "Two ice-filled silver buckets . . . sandwiches, one-bite big . . . again and again came the silver trays with fresh glasses of the bubbling champagne...
...usual, nobody knew exactly where he was in the race. The New York Herald Tribune, in a burst of journalistic enterprise, sent an airborne reporter circling over the fleet ("first air coverage of such an event"). He saw a fleet of sails fanned out, with 70 miles of smooth water between the leader and the tailender. The backwash of a baby hurricane just missed the racers. Even so, one sloop's topmast was sprung...
Humid. In the Omaha World-Herald, the weather bureau predicted: "Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers and warmer in the seat...