Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more stubbornly sure that Chinese unity could be won only by whipping the Red armies in battle, U.S. advisers from General Marshall down ever more firmly warned he could not win. They still thought China should make a deal with the Communists. Dead set against any deal of the kind, Chiang cockily prophesied: "Given time, the ripe apple will fall into our laps...
This tightening up of a loosely drawn bill did not answer the reservations of such economizers as Georgia's Senator Walter George. But it was designed to fit the major objections of Republicans Arthur Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles. With their support, the prospects for some kind of arms program this year looked perceptibly brighter. Said Dulles: "There remain some problems. However, I think we are now in a good way to do the needful quickly...
...Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.), is just a sample of the cases in the files of the United Mine Workers' multimillion-dollar Welfare and Retirement Fund. With the 20? paid to the union fund for every ton of coal mined, John L. Lewis and his U.M.W. were fighting a kind of poverty and despair unknown to most of the prosperous U.S. So far, said Fund Director Roche, the money has been barely enough to attack the "backlog of human misery [that] has been rolled up through decades" in the mining country. In the past twelve months, she said, the fund...
When a hard-pressed cattleman commented, "La Frutera's rainmaker is capturing our clouds with a net!" many were inclined to agree that some kind of cloud-rustling was indeed going on. Local newspapers ran cartoons that showed Pilot Silverthorne as an airborne cowboy herding clouds with a lariat...
...wedding of her son, Cinemactor James Stewart, 41, to Socialite Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart was plainly pleased at his abdication as the town's most eligible bachelor. Said she: "I'm so very glad that Jimmy is getting married. I was kind of worried that he wouldn...