Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
Died. Major General Walter Campbell Short (ret.), 69, commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart ailment; in Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...
There were cries in the House last week that the reports of isolationism's death had been greatly exaggerated. The charge was more shrill than fair. Congress had come a long way since four months before Pearl Harbor when extension of the draft came within one vote of being defeated...
...attack at Pearl Harbor found Hachiro Yuasa again on a visit to the U.S.-a thin, spidery little man of 51 who had become one of Japan's top scholars and educators. But before anything else, Yuasa was still a Christian; he decided to stay on in America in protest against the war. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as consultant for a New York interdenomination committee to help U.S. Japanese. "I am 100% Japanese," Yuasa explained, "but I am a Christian Japanese ... I wish to be a symbol of the Church Universal...
Tanaka: "I think Admiral Togo† is the greatest man in Japanese history. Togo was an honest nationalist, which is not the same thing as a militarist. I also respect Admiral Yamamoto [who planned and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor], not as a militarist but as an excellent human being. I had a copy of his biography, but when we surrendered I burned...