Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Senate Republican conference, to fill the two Republican vacancies on the all-important Foreign Relations Committee, appointed New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose internationalist sympathies have sometimes been muted by party politics, and Wisconsin's loudmouthed Alexander Wiley, a determined pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist. To international-minded Senators, the new members were not much of an improvement over their predecessors: James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania and Gerald Nye of North Dakota...
Many of the Japanese citizens who stayed in the interior had no intention of returning until the war's end, when they would get back property leased after Pearl Harbor. Many more had no intention of going back at all. Of 110,000 evacuated from the coast after Pearl Harbor, 35,000 had already settled in the East or Middle West; they had been received at farms and war plants with no outcry...
...weeks ago we passed up an opportunity to tell all that on $65 per month our little company's contributions averaged $38.75 per man in the Pearl Harbor bond drive, to the mystification of all, especially the men concerned. But we can't forget to boast of our present pride and joy, the company basketball team which became "champeen" of the entire Supply School under the blazing leadership of "Flashing Jack" Falsey, late of Harvard across the Charles
...told, we have seen close to a third of our pre-Pearl Harbor staff go off to the wars. So far 46 girls have left to join the Wacs or the Waves or the Red Cross- and the Service Roster in our reception room shows that there are now 340 TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men in uniform (almost 50 percent have earned commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank...
...Pearl Harbor, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a fifth miniature star on his khaki shirt collar...