Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that Mrs. Perle Mesta could find something more to do with her money than use it for social splurges in our nation's capital . . . with conditions as they are in Europe...
...they had ever since the end of World War II, a steady stream of visitors flowed into the U.S. last week, each headed hopefully for his own kind of Mecca, each revealing something of the part the nation was playing in the world...
Only a Beginning. That the faithful Americans seemed eager to do. Cried Henry Wallace: "Any race or nation [like Germany and Japan] which feels that it was meant by destiny to rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close...
While he waited for company from Capitol Hill, the President put in a busy week, full of official comings & goings. Winston Churchill arrived for the full brandy-and-cigar treatment at a formal presidential dinner in Blair House (see The Nation). There was a little dinner for outgoing Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and, later, a surprise ceremony to give Jim the Distinguished Service Medal. Incoming Secretary Louis Johnson was eager to take over, so the transfer was moved ahead four days, and early this week he was publicly installed at the Pentagon in the biggest swearing-in ceremony...
...conservative old Clyde R. Hoey. He disagreed, Hoey admitted, with many of Graham's principles. But, orated frock-coated, windy old Senator Hoey: "He is as loyal as any American who walks this earth ... no one who knows him would hesitate to trust him with any secret this nation might have . . . he is a great American." In his interim appointment, new Senator Graham will serve until 1950, may then try to be elected for the rest of the term...