Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 30 days of testimony and bickering, the Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee last week got back to the man in the middle of the mess. The man: Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet on the fatal...
...Pearl Harbor Committee's mild, punctilious Counsel William DeWitt Mitchell, who served ably and loyally under Republican Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, could no longer hide his impatience. In quiet anger, he announced that he and his assistants would quit their thankless jobs at year...
High Aims. After seven days as a witness in the Pearl Harbor inquiry, General of the Army George C. Marshall got off by plane to Chungking and his new mission: to bring an end to China's civil strife, to seek unity of her dissident factions. President Truman put on official record the new, clear policy which Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China, has wanted, and which Special Envoy George Marshall had helped frame (TIME, Dec. 10). Two major points were made even more explicit: 1) U.S. forces will remain in China to help Generalissimo Chiang...
Arms & Surpluses. What finally did the trick was the war. Several months before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen joined Canadians in transforming the island into a Gibraltar. Before war's end, the U.S. and Canada poured hundreds of millions into Newfoundland for bases, barracks, dockyards, airports...
...Germany's surrender, UNO's birth, Labor's victory in England, the bomber crash into the Empire State Building, the Potsdam Declaration, the atomic bomb, Japan's surrender, the war-crimes trial, the U.A.W. strike. Hearst's I.N.S. "best ten" list added the Pearl Harbor inquiry...