Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side, there were words of real encouragement for business and free enterprise. Harry Truman wanted wartime controls relaxed as quickly as possible, although he injected a note of caution. He wanted a single head for the struggling three-man Surplus Property Board. He wanted war contracts canceled and settled soon, war plants cleared so that peacetime production can get up steam...
...Taking note of much official and unofficial talk about the future of the atomic bomb's secret, Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes last week said that: 1) Russia had not asked the U.S. to be let in on the secret; 2) he and President Truman had not even discussed the possibility of entrusting it to the United Nations Organization...
From Harry Truman, who called for limited tax reductions in his message to Congress, came a note of caution. Said he: "We must reconcile ourselves to the fact that room for tax reductions at this time is limited. A total war effort cannot be liquidated overnight." But from an election-conscious Congress, the President was likely to get more than he had called...
...tavern conference began on a strained, embarrassed note; soon tempers flared, voices grew loud. Finally, Howe boiled, told the union men to "get the hell out of here." Then he clamped his hat on his head, stomped away...
Hull (said the Board) had to share in the blame because his Nov. 26 "ultimatum" to the Japanese, delivered when the Army and Navy were desperately playing for time, had "hastened" the onslaught. Hull's note was no ultimatum (it was his last word). But (said the Board) "it is significant that the Secretary of War had to go and call on Mr. Hull to get the information on what amounted to the cessation of negotiations, which was the most vital thing that had occurred...