Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sight Raiser. Harry Hopkins was in the President's study, munching an apple, when Franklin Roosevelt got the news of Pearl Harbor. Now the job of being a constant goad on production was added to Hopkins' functions. He listened to the bustling airmen, and agreed without batting an eye that the U.S. could meet their seemingly fantastic wants. It was he who always put the ostrich egg in the hen coop, who always raised the sights over the last highest production estimate. In 1941, shown the estimated merchant-ship construction for the year, he blandly doubled the figure. At year...
...urged the President to establish the Office of War Mobilization, and helped persuade Jimmy Byrnes to step down from the Supreme Court and take the job. He lost one fight: he wanted a National Service Act right after Pearl Harbor. But the President vetoed the idea, on the grounds that public opinion would not accept it. (Once a Presidential course is set, Hopkins stops arguing. He also defers to no one in his estimate of the President's ability to gauge public opinion...
...present Mrs. Hopkins is credited by his friends with slowing down his tempo considerably, putting him on a sane regimen, and keeping him from overwork. It was not always so. In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, when Hopkins was working 18 hours a day, one of his male friends once counseled: "Cut it out, Harry, you'll kill yourself." Harry, who is no man to overlook a little quiet drama, looked up over his shell-rimmed glasses and replied: "Do you know a better...
Professor Perkins, in succeeding Professor Henry V. Hubbard '97, who became Emeritus in 1941, ends a leave of absence from his post as associate professor of Architecture since Pearl Harbor...
...Washington's coastal White River valley, directors of an organization known as Remember Pearl Harbor League, Inc. ate a steak dinner, voted to boycott returning Japanese, listened with admiration to a member's opinion of Nisei in the U.S. Army: "They're all loyal to Hirohito...