Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a while you get to know certain things and govern yourself accordingly. You do not, of course, just drop in on President Alemán. But once you are with him, he sits back for a long chat with you as if he had nothing on his mind but to solve your problems. He has an extraordinary amount of that Mexican charm I was speaking about...
...Hard Way. At eleven, Lew went east to the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y. While his father made a strike at the U.V.X. mines in central Arizona, Lew was studying history and playing baseball at Amherst, trying to make up his mind what to do next. After one postgraduate year studying metallurgy at M.I.T., World War I decided...
...Come to See Me." The war, and a job as president of Mutual Life, brought him back to the U.S. and to Government work. Franklin Roosevelt had never forgiven him for his political switch (Douglas also supported Willkie in 1940). Lew's mind, said Roosevelt, runs "more to dollars than humanity." But when Harry Hopkins urged Roosevelt to overlook past political differences, Roosevelt relented: "Have him come...
Purpose. Winant wrote Letter from Grosvenor Square to counteract "the growing disillusionment of today; which not only dims and obscures the present, but is trying to cloud the past." The past which he has called to mind, dwarfed in part by the mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed...
...India for 20 years, ending up as Joint Secretary of the Defense Department from 1944 to this year. E. M. Forster's Passage to India (1924), a novel in which certain types of British officials were treated with an irony amounting to loathing, has evidently been on his mind. He writes, in his foreword: "Perhaps I have been lucky in the people I have known and the visitors who write books after a six months' stay have been unlucky." This mild slap...