Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Acheson, who as Under Secretary (1945-47) and Secretary of State (1949-53) helped fashion the NATO defense system and recommended sending troops into Korea, wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that Berlin may test the West's will more than Korea did. He ridiculed the notion that...
Hatless and coatless, shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Massachusetts' 41-year-old U.S. Senator, stepped smiling from an airliner at Salt Lake City one brisk morning last week. He shook the hand of every politician in sight, some now familiar from his two other Utah visits since 1956, and...
"I do not say that the President has remained silent on vital issues," he cracked. "On the contrary, we have heard many a bold platitude. We are given phrases instead of leadership, slogans instead of a program." Then, after a few bold platitudes of his own, Kennedy flew off to...
¶ Three plainclothesmen on the Brooklyn Morals Squad were hauled up for the shakedown of a bookie; their arrest touched off a grand jury investigation of the entire squad.
¶ Two off-duty cops were arrested for extortion, accused of shaking down a sailor they saw taking a girl into a hotel.