Word: morings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-hitting Arleigh Burke was always a handy man to have around in a fight. In the South Pacific campaign he won the nickname "31-Knot Burke" from the speed with which he pushed his destroyer squadron into action. He became chief of staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty...
"You need money, money and more money to get the organization rolling again," explained Illinois' Fred Virkus, a megaphone for the Colonel Bertie McCormick wing of the G.O.P. "But you are not going to get the money until you can answer the question, 'What does the Republican Party...
Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest...
Then ECA needed a high-level expert to formulate and carry out its transport policy in Greece. Jim Glynn's application blank-embellished with a few more additions-was studded with so many achievements that ECA hired him on the spot at $12,000 a year and sent him...
Mao was accompanied by his more-traveled crony, Chu Teh, commander in chief of the Chinese Communist armies, who had once studied at Moscow's Eastern Toilers' Institute. At Moscow's Yaroslav station, the two Chinese visitors got one of the most distinguished receptions ever rendered to...