Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval officer he requested combat duty, got it as flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey, who called him "a great naval officer." He saw plenty of action, went without sleep for 70 hours evacuating U.S. prisoners from Japan after...
That was Tuesday. He saw the President at noon. At 3 o'clock he appeared at the State Department for a press conference-not on ECA but on Korea and Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered...
Precisely at 10 on Friday morning, Hoffman stood in the Oval Room of the White House. Wearing the blue suit he had worn to Japan-the only suit he had taken along and which he had worn ever since-he took the oath of office, watched by a beaming Harry Truman. Then he went to a meeting of the Cabinet (his job carries Cabinet rank), met reporters again and sortied up to Capitol Hill...
...contractor, poet and philosopher who lives in Tokyo. Recently he has become a political backer of General Douglas MacArthur. Last month, when MacArthur declared his willingness to run for the U.S. presidency if nominated, Oda painted two large signs over the two-story office of his Japan Instant Construction Co.: "We wish MacArthur for President United States...
Since you have come to Japan...