Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dishwasher in New York, Helis hit it rich in California and Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over to the Government. General MacArthur's command used it all during the Pacific campaign...
...Government, which had failed twice to kick Australian-born Harry Bridges out of the country as a Communist, was at it again. Last week in San Francisco, a federal grand jury indicted the Longshoremen's Boss Bridges for perjury. Said Bridges, with the air of a man who was weary of it all: "It's no surprise." But the Government thought this time it might prove...
...Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
...department eight in all, and two new posts labeled Deputy Under Secretary. Biggest switch of all was the 'appointment of George F. Kennan, top U.S. policy planner on Russian affairs, to the key post of State Department counselor, replacing Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, who is now No. 2 man in the Paris embassy...
...strikers offered to man certain switch-boxes from the Western zones into Berlin's Western sectors, while still blocking Soviet trains bound for the Russian sector. The Russians indignantly refused. Their German stooges said they were ready to pay 60% of the workers' wages in West marks. The strikers said no. They demanded all their pay in West marks-the demand which had precipitated, the strike. When Russian violence failed, it looked as if the strike might go on for a while. U.S. and British planes stepped up their airlift loads to 8,000 tons a day. Berliners...