Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, battling for a place in the Fourth Term sun, began his week with a speech in Manhattan. He was flanked by Henry Kaiser and Eleanor Roosevelt; his ears were ringing with a felicitous endorsement from Franklin Roosevelt: ". . . a clear voice to the conscience and the hopes of men everywhere...
Promised to be the first of a series of vessels named after American universities, a Victory Ship named "S.S. Harvard Victory" was launched Tuesday in a Kaiser yard at Richmond, California. The "S.S. Harvard Victory" has a dead weight of 10800 tons, larger than the Liberty Ships...
...could say whether Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser was doing more than Planebuilder Donald Douglas or G.M.'s Charles E. Wilson or Big Steel's Ben Fairless. All together, they had sweated and strained to get war production to its peak and keep it there. The production lines spewed out so many tanks, planes and materiel of all kinds that, by midyear, the problem was considered no longer one of production but of cutbacks...
Died. Joseph Caillaux, 81, bald, be-monocled onetime Premier of France, five times Minister of Finance; in Mamers, France. Son of a millionaire (who was himself Minister of Finance), aristocratic, dictatorial Joseph Caillaux, in 1911, appeased Germany in a secret negotiation, ceding part of the French Congo to the Kaiser for a free French hand in Morocco, was forced to resign his premiership. Blazing because of Le Figaro's attacks on Caillaux and the public reprinting of their love letters, his second wife put five bullets into Le Figaro's Editor Gaston Calmette, was acquitted of murder...
...President made little news, but his schedule of visitors was the most pack-jammed in many a week: admirals, generals, senators, congressmen, foreign envoys, plain citizens like Bernard Baruch, Henry Kaiser. He kept newsmen in suspense on the date and place of the upcoming meeting of the Big Three. Would he accept General de Gaulle's invitation to Paris? Perhaps, some day, when he had more time...