Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through the Jap code (which the U.S. had in its pocket before Pearl Harbor), President Franklin Roosevelt and the Washington high command knew, hours before the attack, that Japan was breaking off negotiations, that this meant a surprise attack somewhere in the Pacific...
Into Today. Republican Congressmen were quick to demand that the joint Senate-House committee investigating the Pearl Harbor defeat have a look at the letter. Governor Dewey said his copy would remain in his safe at Albany. He referred all questions about it to General Marshall...
Quick to praise Dewey's 1944 decision was the G.O.P. press. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He [Dewey] abstained from using the information . . . and lost the election by a margin that could easily have been wiped out by the Pearl Harbor revelations, and established himself as a true, self-sacrificing patriot...
...eyed Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 62, this was half a victory and much better than none. In the atomic age, the U.S. for the first time would have a clearing house to tie to gether all agencies' intelligence work. It could have used one before Pearl Harbor, when global gumshoeing was a fine art among other powers. (Britain's S.I.S.- -Secret Intelligence Service - and its pre cursors had helped the Crown keep tab on good & bad neighbors for nearly 400 years.) Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking and lawyering had prepared General Donovan...
When Stimson stepped out, his right-hand man stepped up. By promoting earnest, dull and difficult Bob Patterson, President Truman made sure of continuity in War Department policy during the troublous demobilization months, the Pearl Harbor inquiry, the coming battle over the armed forces merger...