Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no letup. The President kept his eye on the calendar, and the date of his reckoning with his sworn political foe, Congressman Roger Slaughter, up for renomination in the Missouri primary this week. But there was a mountain of work to move before Politician Truman could go off electioneering...
...Mountain to Molehill. Out of the White House tumbled a torrent of major & minor appointments: Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton to the newly created post of Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; Kentucky newspaper editor and onetime governor Keen Johnson to be the first Under Secretary of Labor; seven other new diplomats, judges, administrative aides...
Under the President's steady assault the mountain of unfinished business melted to a molehill. At week's end he drew a deep breath, climbed aboard the Sacred Cow, just back from Paris, and headed west to cast his vote as Citizen Harry Truman...
Last week, Turkey's eastern frontier with the Armenian Republic was quiet except for the thrashing of the narrow Arax River against the 7,000-foot mountain gorges. From this remote, rarely visited area, TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder cabled...
...conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...