Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under secretaryship abandoned by William H. Draper. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted his resignation). Admiral W. W. Smith's $12,000 chairmanship of the Maritime Commission was also open...
Cart First. Harry Truman had asked for the moon, and left Congress in the position of having to haggle over the sixpence. He had kept his campaign promise by submitting the bill. But, as he well knew, his compulsory insurance proposal -the only real issue in the bill-had little chance of passing in this session of Congress. Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they...
...four hours behind closed doors in the committee's gloomy Capitol committee room, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson answered some questions, left more unanswered. Western Europe would get no immediate boost in its military strength: the first year's supplies would simply reinforce established divisions, chiefly with light equipment. But what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense...
...Bonn talks collapse now. First, the West offered important concessions strengthening the proposed central government's legislative and fiscal powers; this was designed to pacify the Socialists. The wires buzzed between Washington and U.S. officials in Germany. Next, the State Department's old Germany hand, Robert Murphy, left his desk at half a day's notice, flew to Germany. After days of conferences, Schumacher's Socialists finally let themselves be persuaded to accept the Western Powers' concessions...
...movie is hampered by occasional Hollywood cliches. There is the gangster type: the sinister leer over the villain's left shoulder and the final gun battle with the police surrounding Garfield and his girl; and the gay ending type: bells tolling and people dancing in the streets...