Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary Forrestal is one man in the present administration who ... is not swayed by the forever complaining minorities who seem to give their allegiance more to Soviet Russia and Palestine than to their own country. As for this "Wall Street" name-calling, the columnists should be advised that this is the end of the '40s, not the middle...
...Pieces of Underwear. Mindszenty's opposition to the Nazis made him a national figure. He had taken the uphill way again. He preached against the Nazis' "new paganism." When the Nazis occupied Hungary, many Hungarians of German descent dropped their Magyarized names and started using their old German ones again. Tough Father Joseph Pehm did the contrary. He dropped his German name and took a Hungarian one, derived from his native village-Mindszenty...
...best measure of RIAS's effect is the reaction of the Communists, who have made a sneering pun on Heimlich's name; they call him "Der unheimliche Mr. Heimlich [the uncanny Mr. Canny]." Periodically the Russians try to jam RIAS: habitually the Soviet press screams against it. But every week, more than 1,000 letters pour into RIAS from the Soviet zone. From Jena and Leipzig, Dresden and Potsdam, as well as Berlin, the letters urge RIAS "to keep up the fight...
Christliches Jugenddorf Adelheide-the Christian Youth Village of Adelheide-is the name lettered on the big roadside sign outside the cluster of 20-odd two-story buildings near Bremen, in Germany's British zone. Adelheide was built to be one of the biggest Luftwaffe bases in northern Germany. At war's end it became first a D.P. camp, then (with the addition of barbed wire) an internment center for Gestapo-men and Nazis awaiting trial...
Boston and New York radio stations are cooperating in the drive by mailing baby orchids at one dollar apiece for Valentine's Day. The orchids were flown from Honolulu for the occasion and with each flower is enclosed a card reading: "A contribution has been made in your name to the American Heart Association" and a flight log describing the orchids' trip from the Pacific...