Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prime promoter of National Brotherhood Week. He was vice chairman of Johnson's fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes of an important Truman speech. Greenfield wired back: buy the air time, and make it half an hour. When Truman rode through the streets of Philadelphia, short, chubby Albert Greenfield rode with...
...finance committee, board chairman of Electric Bond & Share, and longtime business associate of Floyd Odium (Calder was president of American & Foreign Power from 1927 to 1944). His $3,000 check for the party arrived Nov. 22, 1948, nearly three weeks after Truman's victory. The President offered to make him Secretary of the Army; he refused...
...Reds' light, mustard-colored uniforms were generally clean, and the men were well armed with Bren guns, Tommy guns, modern rifles (some of Japanese make, some U.S.). They carried pouches of hand grenades at their belts, bandoleers of cartridges across their shoulders. Many were exhausted. At every halt, soldiers slumped in doorways and on sidewalks. One tall native of Shantung looked up wearily: "What day is it today? We've been walking and fighting for eight days...
...dressed for company, for hardly anybody drops in to pay a call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make her way to the church and light a candle to St. Mary. On her way back she stops to see her friend, the butcher. "Is my son a traitor?" she asks him then. "Is that what people...
...Nagasaki's Urakami baseball field, packed with thousands, the Emperor said a few words: "I do not know how to offer sympathy to Nagasaki, which had to suffer the atom bomb. We should work with all our might to make a peaceful Japan which will be the cornerstone of world peace and culture." As the Emperor finished, a man stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags...