Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note-Takers. More than half the Congressmen were seeing Europe for the first time. They looked hard at the barefoot children, at the surly men and wretched women living in Essen's rubble. They took out pads and pencils and made notes...
...police shorthand writer, leaning against a wall, impassively took note of this incitement to violence. Three-quarters of the crowd approved it. ... Standing in the streets were ordinary working men, listening with attention and with approbation. 'That's right' they said, as the speaker told them of the folly of making war on Germany. 'That's right,' they said, as he denounced the House of Commons as an institution...
Still trotting for his health: Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, 60; around the garden of his place in Paris. Caffery, rain or shine, was doing exactly 51½ laps a day, dutifully carrying lead-weighted batons. Style note: he wore l.a.k.* shorts...
...outgoing National Commander Paul Griffith gave the pitch to its convention in Manhattan (see Veterans) in a bristling statement: if the situation in Greece got worse, or if Greece were invaded, the U.S. should send troops. To the Legion, Chief of Staff General Dwight Eisenhower sounded a note of "critical urgency." The U.S., he said, must meet "any real threat [to peace] as it begins unmistakably to develop...
...nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week: "If I have to fall I will fall in front of my descamisados and at the side of General...