Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard...
From Paris, Frankfurt, Bonn and Berlin, Secretary of State Dean Acheson returned last week to Washington, tired but cheerful. In the group which gathered at the airport to meet him were Mrs. Acheson and Harry Truman. Said the beaming President to the Secretary: "You have done an excellent job." Then...
The Communists have even penetrated the colony's British-built schools. One day last week a group of dockyard laborers' children gave an evening entertainment to raise funds for the Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future...
As the Communists bore down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for...
Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison...