Word: key
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous testimony as it was read back to him-how in 1939, two days after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he had gone to see Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and as a repentant man had urged that some action be taken to get Communists out of key places in the Government. He had named names then, among them Alger Hiss's. He had said nothing about the stolen documents in his possession. "Nevertheless, I gave him [Berle] to understand that there was an apparatus working in the Government." Nothing came of Chambers' charges...
...with a young editor (Norman Wooland) who is bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society. Some of its finds-notably an overstuffed, off-key performance of the Operatic Society-are bright and amusing. Other bits & pieces have already been tarnished by too much handling...
...Key man in the water battle was David I. Coombs '49, who leaned out of his fourth-floor window and cascaded water down on two Dunster men. One were bathing trunks, and the other was well protected by a rain coat and an inverted grocery...
...Bundling his divided Joint Chiefs of Staff off to Key West, Johnson laid down the law. From now on, there would be unification as the law provided -or else. Those who didn't like it could...
...four new Assistant Secretaries of State (one of which was offered to Bunche), giving the department eight in all, and two new posts labeled Deputy Under Secretary. Biggest switch of all was the 'appointment of George F. Kennan, top U.S. policy planner on Russian affairs, to the key post of State Department counselor, replacing Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, who is now No. 2 man in the Paris embassy...