Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force watched each flight proudly-both planes had been ordered east to take part in a big, private air show for Congress this week, calculated to soften the hearts of members who are considering the Air Force Budget...
After 19 months of unification, the top service commanders were still scrapping among themselves over wartime functions and peacetime appropriations. To end the bickering and to clank some brass hats together, President Truman last week sent for General Ike Eisenhower. Since early December Ike had been a part-time troubleshooter, occupying on occasion an unpretentious suite in the Pentagon. Now he would take a full leave from Columbia University for seven or eight weeks...
...worked hard at the theory of law among nations, learned the frustrating practical side of it as assistant solicitor to the State Department, and as an aide to tough old Elihu Root at Geneva. He was assistant secretary general of the first Council session of UNRRA, played a part in the birth of U.N. at San Francisco. Last year Harry Truman made him deputy U.S. representative to the U.N.'s Little Assembly...
Canton, where part of China's Nationalist government had set up shop, was not a city of hope last week, but it certainly was not a city of gloom. TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled...
This huge Unionist victory was due in no small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime