Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Know-Nothing. After Pearl Harbor George worked with the Roosevelt Administration to raise the billions necessary for war. Only once was there anything that approached a raking-over of past unpleasantness. That came when George was called to the White House to discuss a new tax proposal. President Roosevelt, arguing that the tax would be good politics, said expansively: "Walter, if I know anything at all about Georgia politics ..." Into George's eyes came a warning glint. The President caught the look, laughed sheepishly, concluded hastily: "And I certainly...
Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey (TIME...
Hatoyama's first choice as Defense Minister was Kichisaburo Nomura, the one-eyed ex-navy officer who was feigning negotiations in Washington as Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Protests came thick and fast: since Japan's constitution requires civilians in Cabinet posts, ex-admirals do not qualify. In the U.S. view, Nomura would have been a better choice than the man who actually got the Defense Ministry post; Arata Sugihara, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who has egged on Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign...
...carrying only sketchy Yalta stories, the Times set in type and printed the full text of the 200,000 -word Yalta Conference record, along with news stories, pictures and editorial comment. It ran nearly 32 full pages, the longest text the paper has ever run (second: the 15-page Pearl Harbor Report...
Churchill & the Desk. When World War II came, Salesman Tom Watson Jr. enlisted and spent the next 5½ years as a transport pilot in the Army Air Forces. Right after Pearl Harbor he married Olive Field Cawley, then started shuttling between Russia and the Middle East on staff missions. In his B-24 he once flew escort for Britain's Prime Minister Churchill on a long flight from Moscow to Teheran. When he got out in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel with 2,000 hours of flight time, the Air Medal, and senior pilot's wings...