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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the worry was deepseated. There was concern over America's own economy. There was a definite foreboding that the "minimum" arms program was a by-guess-and-by-God estimate wrapped in a dark warning and covered by a blank check. There was an uncomfortable suspicion that the...
The Joint Chiefs, he told John Kee's House Committee, had reviewed all European requests in the light of certain basic strategic assumptions. Among them: 1) "The U.S. will be charged with the strategic bombing . . . The first priority of the joint defense is our ability to deliver the atomic...
The legislators were assembled in special session. Governor Ingram Stainback wanted a law which would end the paralyzing strike of Harry Bridges' Communist-line International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (TIME, July 4). Nobody was in the mood for comedy. Up before the legislature were 19...
Latter-day Runyon creatures spoke a language of their own, a dialect which showed traces of remote English ancestry but which, despite its lack of formal grammar, was curiously courtly in its rhythms. When a Runyon character wanted to say that a tout had left money to his girl friend...
In one of his last columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Runyon wrote a review of his own work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he...