Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orders from the Captain. The big events came next day. Harry Truman had told them to be at the Mayflower Hotel by 7 "and not at 7:10 or 7:15." Captain Harry was twelve minutes early. "Everyone here?" he snapped. "Where's the cook? Let's have breakfast." Grinning, a little selfconscious, they all sat down. Someone started to call him "Mr. President." Harry Truman commanded: "With this outfit I'm the captain, and that's an order...
...Vandenberg was there, and so was Acheson's omnipresent old Harvard professor and busybody friend, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, with whom he walks to work each day (see cut). Acheson's text for the day, taken from the First Book of Kings: "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...
Better Not to Weep. But the outcome, by all signs, was many weeks away. If they could help it, the Reds were not even going to let the charge come to the point of a legal decision. Inside & outside the court they did their best to delay, distract and confuse. The faithful, chanting "solidarity forever," marched in dogged droves outside the courthouse. City authorities assembled 400 policemen in the streets and in nearby buildings-just in case...
...week's end, the junta found itself involved in diplomatic wrist-slapping with Chile. The Chilean government asked the Council of the Organization of American States to consider Venezuela's refusal to let ex-President Romulo Betancourt leave Caracas' Colombian embassy, where he had been since the coup. Replied the junta: 1) Betancourt had just been given a safe-conduct, and Chile knew it; 2) Chile had been guilty of an "unfriendly act" in even mentioning the subject. To make it stronger, the junta called its ambassador home from Santiago...
...Cannes, Aly Khan's secretary mused that his master's coming marriage to Rita Hayworth "will break a lot of hearts. You know how it is. The prince has everything -position, money, looks. The women never let him alone for five minutes, and not only ordinary women, society women, too." The boss's bride-to-be, he had concluded, is "a lovely, simple girl. She's nice in spite of being a movie star, never paints or wears a lot of diamonds...