Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John's face was a grey, unsmiling mask. This week, he silently clumped back into Goldsborough's small, dimly lit court. The trial for contempt was little more than an unloading of technicalities. It was pretty clear that Judge Goldsborough's mind was made up. This week he found John Lewis guilty of contempt. Lewis' legal position now was really hot. But his bargaining position got better every day as the coal mines remained empty...
After weeks of mulling over the biggest vacancy in his diplomatic corps-the ambassadorship to Britain-Harry Truman made up his mind. The man he picked for the job: conservative, 64-year-old O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner, a safe, uncolorful candidate whom the Senate was likely to confirm with little or no fuss...
...Moscow. He (and Britain's Bevin) went to Moscow, but they accomplished almost nothing. There was worse to come. The Russian tide was rising fast. The period of acute threats and melodramatic walkouts had to be lived through. Mr. Byrnes, groping through the labyrinthine mysteries of the Soviet mind, was to hear himself called an "appeaser" at home...
Schumacher's main point: the victors did not know (or could not agree on) what they wanted in Germany. "This fact must be brought to mind when one looks upon this gruesome dance of death that is now beginning in Germany. The victors should at least find a common denominator...
...working for Germany under the protection of democratic civil liberties. Today he shows that the same men who lent aid and comfort to the Nazis three years ago have embarked on another, more ominous, adventure. "Their most important objective is to capture postwar America's most precions prize: the mind of the veteran...