Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune, the Washington Post-spent his afternoons tapping his pipelines. The best of these were longtime friends in the British Embassy. He gathered his news in personal interviews, not at cocktail parties. Pertinax stuck to his lifelong rule against purely speculative stories, which he feels U.S. columnists overdo. His motto: get to the root of the facts and the conclusion should become self-evident...
...glasses who peered from a nearby sundeck into the solarium of the Senator Hotel when the girls assembled there (fully clothed). At one point the young ladies were inducted into a "sorority" called Mu Alpha Sigma, which was invented by the contest directors solely for Miss America entrants. Its motto: Modesty, Ambition, Success...
First Task. MacArthur had a clear conception of his role. First, he was going "On to Tokyo," fulfilling the motto he himself had proclaimed only six months earlier. Beyond that, he told President Truman, he would "do everything possible to capitalize this situation along the magnificently constructive lines you have conceived for the peace of the world." MacArthur was the Supreme Allied Commander for the purpose of receiving Japan's formal surrender. The emphasis was on the word "for"; he was not supreme commander "of" Allied forces. The surrender terms which he imposes upon Japan must be executed...
...successor is 57-year-old Rear Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, who was skipper of the Lexington when she was sunk in the world's first carrier battle, in the Coral Sea. Sherman's motto: "Kill the bastards scientifically." McCain's relief is 60-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Towers, who has been morosely watching the war from an administrative position as Deputy Commander in Chief (for air) of the Pacific Fleet, a job which he is very glad to leave...
...evening last week Private Bertucci, stationed at Salina, Utah, abandoned his motto. First he had a few beers in town. He chatted with some Salina girls, stopped off at a cafe for coffee, strolled out to the temporary camp at Main Street's east end, where 250 German prisoners of war slept...