Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policymakers, the end came as ignominiously as fof China's Generalissimo. Wearily, Ambassador Stuart cabled Washington: "I have more than ever a sense of frustration ... I feel impotent to accomplish anything." Desperately he cabled for specific instructions to meet the shattering of Chinese resistance. In a tantrum born of its own indecision, Washington brushed off its ambassador's "hypothetical" inquiries: "It is not in the national interest to vouchsafe cut and dried answers to these over-simplified questions...
...Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...
Idaho's banjo-playing Senator Glen H. Taylor, who served Henry Wallace as a combination singing cowboy and vice-presidential candidate in last November's election, announced the results of a bit of deductive thought. Interviewed last week on the Meet the Press radio show, he said that he had concluded that the "American people do not want a splinter party." In danger of becoming a splinter himself if he didn't get Democratic Party support for re-election next year, Glen added melodiously that he was no longer "associated" in any way with H. Wallace...
...fabulous riches of Anglo-Iranian's fields, in Persia and neighboring Iraq,* have been the focus of almost endless bloody struggles. The eastward-thrusting Kaiser coveted them in 1915 as did Panzer-probing Rommel in 1942. Between times and since, there have been such threats to meet as the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and tribal revolts provoked by Soviet Russia. Through all, Britain and Anglo-Iranian, bending but never breaking in the storm, have kept control. Now Anglo-Iranian has assets of ?76,753,472, is the third largest crude-oil producer in the world; only Standard...
...that lurked upstairs. Buyers were shying away from the high ($50 to $150) cost of installing and servicing aerials; worse still, many an apartment landlord was forbidding any more installations on his already cluttered rooftop, thus hitting hard at the big city audience, television's best market. To meet this threat, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and Chicago's Earl ("Madman") Muntz had each brought out sets with built-in aerials, which gave fair service in areas where signals were strong...