Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital buzzed with rumors that Herbert Hoover, famed for his European relief work after World War I, was to be put back in harness, if only as an adviser. Whatever the outcome, Harry Truman's invitation had been as shrewd as it was generous. In one master stroke, he had won the applause of Republicans and had sharply reminded the nation of the immediate necessity of feeding Europe. Even those who had balked at the idea of the U.S. "feeding the world" would now give weight to Herbert Hoover's passionate V-E day declaration...
...Secretary. In a class by himself was young, handsome Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department career man functioning as international secretary general. Relaxed and alert amid innumerable annoyances, Hiss was master of the incredibly complicated conference machinery. The wheels turned. A charter of world organization was taking shape...
...school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministers-Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance; Franz Seldte, labor minister; Herbert Backe, agriculture; Julius Dorpmüller, transportation; and Albert Speer, Hitler's master of production. All but Dorpmüller were hyperactive Nazis...
Favorite & Rival. Lucas Cranach, an early 16th-Century German master, was a Göring favorite, and he had some beauties-about 50 in all. He had a lovely Venus by Cranach, a Madonna with Child and John the Baptist, and a haunting portrait of Prince Moritz of Saxony as a boy. "It is a curious thing," Hofer added, "but that portrait has great similarity to little Edda, Göring's daughter...
...thing that sticks out most in my mind is not a Rubens or a Rembrandt or even a diamond-crusted cigaret box. It is a silver cup presented by Hermann Göring, Reich Master of the Hunt, to Hermann Göring, Reich Master of the Hunt. Yes, that is what it says...