Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter drifted until a subsequent luncheon when Ickes brought it up again. "I said, 'Mr. President, I have an idea. Why don't you send for Woodring and say to him, "Harry, ordinarily Dublin is not an important diplomatic post, but now it is, on account of the war. There will be a vacancy there and I wish to fill it with one of my very strongest men. I want to appoint you." ' The President did not seem to think Woodring would agree to this...
...Letter. Later Ickes thought up a more "brilliant idea"-that all Cabinet members should resign because of the war in Europe and leave the President free to replace any of them. Said F.D.R.: "Why, I couldn't do that, Harold. Some of the members of the Cabinet might think that I don't want them...
Arrogant SS General Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal surgeon, had had a pretty good idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt...
...going to Europe this summer, too?" If you are, it won't be an original idea. Paris expects 100,000 clean cut young Americans on Bastille Day (July 14) or thereabouts, and a good proportion of these will be Harvard A.B.'s, 1948 vintage...
Here the six younger classes involved in the day's revelry will be converging and will vie for liveliness of garb. Tradition calls for something with dash and curiosity, often a costume idea for a specific class repeated over the years. though equally often varied as the fancy of the prime movers of each group shifts...