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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double-breasted blue suit and zebra-striped tie, George waved to those he knew, graciously passed around a typed list of all his business connections, and sat down. He was on the board of Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...
More Bad News. The President had a heavy list of engagements. He sent his recommendation for an initial $3,750,000,000 British loan to Congress, found its introduction blocked in the filibustering Senate. He read that his Gallup poll popularity rating had slipped in two months from...
...sidelight to an earlier Truman-Churchill meeting was disclosed last week. At Potsdam the President gave a dinner for Churchill and Joseph Stalin, arranged for Pianist Eugene List to present a Chopin recital. Winston Churchill listened glumly for an hour, then said: "Mr. President, why don't you go home? I can't stand this noise much longer, and we can't leave until you do." Recalling the incident, Harry Truman related: "But I was enjoying the music. And we kept Churchill on the hot seat another hour...
...judge issued an injunction limiting pickets at Carnegie-Illinois' Homestead plant to ten at each gate. The union protested, but obeyed. In Manhattan, Novelist Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls) formed a committee to raise funds for G.M. strikers, got $35,000 in three days from a heterogeneous list of contributors who agreed with the slogan "Hunger Must Not 'Be a Weapon." The committee promptly began sending the money out to buy food and pay rents. In New York, the city's Welfare Department agreed to aid Western Union strikers who were in need...
...brand-new team, drew France's better-seasoned team as a first-round foe, seemed sure to die a quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...