Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...J. ROBERTSON Managing Director Daily Express London, England...
...Suppressed Report. Had Nationalist China been a hopeless cause? If so, U.S. policy apparently made a mad marriage with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
...flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris. He left Kansas City in 1916. In the early 19205 he got a job with the FBI-then a serio-comic collection of political apple polishers commanded by that hoary old Private Eye, William J. Burns...
...Tuck. This time it was the Dewey leaders who were trying to fight somebody with nobody: Committeeman Axel J. Beck of Elk Point...
...Deweymen forces were completely routed. In a radio interview, retiring Chairman Scott admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...