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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside police lines at the train platform, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson led Cabinet members aboard Franklin Roosevelt's car. The rain came down harder. The big, black automobile with bulletproof windows moved up beside the train, with the President's grandson, five-year-old Johnnie Boettiger, wriggling excitedly beside the driver...
Washington. In this labor-conscious state, a well-organized P.A.C. helped boost registration. But it was largely a superorganized A. F. of L. which spearheaded the resounding Democratic sweep, ousting even popular Governor Arthur Langlie...
Limited as it was, the surge forward marked the arrival of the new Eighth Army commander, severe, demanding Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery, by reputation a more daring operator than his predecessor. Lieut. General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese. McCreery, a good friend of the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark (they even sign their official correspondence "Dick" and "Mark"), will probably enforce closer cooperation with the Fifth...
...legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times...
...Washington last week, Chief Sulzberger had nothing to say about the move that hoisted him suddenly over the heads of such crack, veteran Times correspondents as Herbert L. Matthews (Rome) and Raymond Daniell (London). Against whispers of nepotism stood his record as one of the ablest and most enterprising comers in the foreign field...