Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giving aid, we must clearly look forward to the day when either the aid works or-if it is not going to do the job . . . we'd better know now rather than later." Bob Lovett's tone was soft, but no European diplomat missed the note of warning. This week, with George Kennan looking over their shoulders, the conferees started to do some trimming...
Professional Opinion. In Philadelphia, burglars who had hammered and chiseled at Berger's Florist Shop safe for hours finally gave up, left a note: "A very good safe...
Like Grady and preceding political heads, Killion took over the job with no previous shipping experience. The only nautical note that reporters could find in his record was the name of his birthplace-Steamboat Springs, Colo. An ex-newspaperman and chain-store lobbyist, he got his first political job through a long-standing friendship with California's New Dealing Governor Culbert Levy Olson...
...Copenhagen, the Baptist World Alliance had wound up its meeting (the first since 1939) on a lofty note. The 5,000 delegates from 49 countries adopted a ringing manifesto: "It is our first duty to extend the rights of conscience to all people, irrespective of their race, color, sex or religion...
...prone. . . . There are no historic institutions, whether political, economic or religious, which can survive a too uncritical devotion. . . . But even if our democracy were more perfect than it is ... devotion to democracy would still be false as a religion. It tempts us ... to give a false and idolatrous religious note to the conflict between democracy and communism, for instance...