Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then he knew that Japanese policy for an indefinite future had been summed up in a Jap statement made at a Dutch shipping conference: "How can we compromise when you refuse to accept our views?" To the State Department he sent one cautionary telegram after another. Ten months before Pearl Harbor, he warned Washington: "There is a lot of talk around town to the effect that the Japanese, in case of a break with the United States, are planning to go all out in a surprise mass attack on Pearl Harbor...
...months after Pearl Harbor, locked up in his own Embassy, Ambassador Grew observed the tenth anniversary of his mission to Tokyo. Waiting, he jotted down in his diary some "Lessons of History." His timeliest observation, in view of the present rising tide of U.S. nationalism: "We cannot logically on the one hand exercise the right of intervention ... in situations between other nations ... on the ground that our national interests are affected thereby, while on the other hand manifesting indifference to the conditions creating such situations. ... So long as any nation follows policies designed exclusively for the protection and furtherance...
...draft card. When it was not forth coming, questions were asked, and the trooper found that Cain had been arrested eleven times in 31 months by the New Haven police, who had never discovered that he had been absent from his Army base without leave since three months before Pearl Harbor...
...unblemished record of 25 years in the Army, 28 letters of commendation from various superiors. No West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian Assassin." Three days after Pearl Harbor, he arrived at Santa Ana to start building the air base. He liked parties, told cute stories, refereed cadets' football games. Townspeople and cadets liked...
...managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M. in 1935. He went to England to organize M.G.M.'s British film production...