Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carnegie used to order Dewar's Scotch whiskey in 50 or 60-gallon casks. Reporters, touring the wine cellar, found pigeonholes marked Sparkling Moselle, Champagne, and Marsala, now empty. The wine bottles, like the era, were long since gone. Looking back, that past day now seemed like an era of happy irresponsibility, when no man had to account for his riches-though, like Carnegie, some of the wealthy, e.g., Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald, had indeed accounted for theirs in handsome gifts to charity, art and education. Ever since the Widow Carnegie died in 1946 (Carnegie...
...Orders from the Captain. The big events came next day. Harry Truman had told them to be at the Mayflower Hotel by 7 "and not at 7:10 or 7:15." Captain Harry was twelve minutes early. "Everyone here?" he snapped. "Where's the cook? Let's have breakfast." Grinning, a little selfconscious, they all sat down. Someone started to call him "Mr. President." Harry Truman commanded: "With this outfit I'm the captain, and that's an order...
...captain closed the breakfast with a final order: "After 1 o'clock, or about 25 minutes thereafter, I don't give a damn what you do, but I want you to stay sober until then...
...Camp des Alpes-Maritimes, Inc., now in its second year, is looking for five persons to care for poor and undernourished French children during vacation. For this summer the group will all but adopt 120 children in order to restore their health...
...feels that the major reason for U.S. failure in China is that, in following an anti-Communist policy, we have blindly overlooked some local factors. "We need to develop a local approach to each area, in order to ally ourselves with the forces of progressive social change, rather than against them," he claimed...