Word: majored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to his own appraisal, he was also a great friend of the President, even had a White House pass (since revoked...
...Even the major parties grew shrill in their attacks on each other. Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
Last week, after nine years of military service, Howley (now a brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome...
Nationalist China, now formally abandoned by the U.S., crumbled faster & faster. On the day the State Department issued its White Paper, Red columns led by Manchurian General Lin Piao marched unopposed into Hunan's capital of Changsha, last major city between the Communist armies and Canton, seat of the Nationalist government...