Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weeds. Their job had not been easy. In their report, they assailed both labor and management for playing fast & loose with statistics. In contrast to the uncritical respect which the Administration had shown in the past for labor's philosophy, Daugherty, Rosenman and Cole time & again chided labor economists for the lack of reliability in their "facts;" they also chided steelmakers for the unreliability of theirs. The truth, the board had decided unanimously in the end, lay somewhere in between...
...Excuse Me, Sir." The doors burst open and a 46-year-old insurance agent named James Hutton hurried out. Unruh spoke for the first time. "Excuse me, sir," he said quietly, and tried to brush past. The insurance man stood motionless. Without another word, Unruh shot him, first in the head, then in the body. He walked into the store and mounted the stairs to Cohen's apartment, where the druggist's family was frantically hunting hiding places...
...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
Science & Poetry. "I have been," writes Trevelyan, "not an original but a traditional kind of historian." Unlike Arnold Toynbee, he saw no pattern in the past, evolved no sweeping philosophy of history. "Philosophy must be brought to history, it cannot be extracted from it. And I have no philosophy of my own to bring, beyond a love of things good and a hatred of things evil...
...year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Old-timer Wilson got it from ex-G.E. President Gerard Swope. Then Charlie Wilson took a long, hard look at the past and the future...