Word: moving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between, Harry Truman reluctantly said goodbye to two tired veterans who had long been hoping to move on. One was old (73), corrugated Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy-presidential chief of staff for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman-who had been ailing, and writing his war memoirs since Jan. 1. In a little ceremony at the White House, Harry Truman awarded Billy Leahy his third Distinguished Service Medal, pinned the medal with two gold stars on his beribboned jacket...
...Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had finally persuaded the President to let him quit as ambassador to Moscow. Weary and homesick after three years of war duty as chief of staff to Ike Eisenhower, and three years of cold-war duty near the Kremlin, "Beedle" Smith will move to New York's Governor's Island as commander of the First Army. The Moscow job, said the White House, was wide open...
Russia. Today national Bolshevism is on the move again. The conservative parties dream the same old dream of playing with fire. The Soviet underground is active too -telling this general and that expropriated industrialist: 'Your time will come, you can work with us.' Maybe that is why you will find some Christian Democrats, but no Socialists, at tea parties like the one at Godesberg. A fine way to behave for those people who just finished mourning the loss of Mindszenty...
...these conjectures are, it must be admitted, colored by the traditional skepticism which has grown up among CRIMSON boards concerning the not always straightfaced deeds of the 'Poon. Let us hope that the more obvious jibes which this move could engender will not be thrown at the Lampoon--for it has shown that whatever reverence for antiquity antiquity in humor, it has the ability to adapt to at in humor, it has the ability to adapt to at least the most obvious trends of the community...
Here is a step which should be a shot in the arm to those individuals and groups at Harvard which have been pushing joint education in the larger sense. Perhaps this move, coming from what has been the area of deepest reaction to the new educational setup, will serve to convince the scoffers that students in the College think this thing is here to stay...