Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rare Exception. Against these charges, a defensive McCarthy salient was sketched out by his request to the Pentagon for the number of times since Pearl Harbor that Congressmen have intervened with the armed forces on behalf of servicemen. McCarthy's request made no distinction between incidents of legitimate congressional concern for constituents and demands accompanied by threats of reprisal against the armed-service departments. The Pentagon answered that demands for special treatment of individuals are "rare." Navy Secretary Robert Anderson, reflecting the view of the three services, said he knew of no case in which a Congressman "has persisted...
...time, these contributions came to an end. I went to a big Spanish relief party the night before Pearl Harbor, and the next day, as we heard the news of the outbreak of war, I decided that I had had about enough of the Spanish cause, and that there were other and more pressing crises in the world...
Died. Saburo Kurusu, 68, onetime Japanese "peace" envoy to the U.S. (1941) who, with Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, was "negotiating with Secretary of State Cordell Hull when Japan struck Pearl Harbor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo. Three weeks before war came, he arrived in Washington to settle growing U.S.-Japanese differences. On Pearl Harbor day, Nomura handed his country's last insolent note to Secretary Hull, waited silently as Hull replied: "I have never seen a document . . . more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions . . ." Shipped home, Kurusu contributed little to Japan's war effort, was never indicted...
Gertrude Stein '98, Helen Keller '04, and Rachel Field '18 are three of the Radcliffe graduates whose works figure prominently in the collection. The wide variety of these books comprise the third section of the Archives. Murder mysteries like "Wedding Eve Murder" and "Blood From A Stone" stand near Pearl Schiff's "Scollay Square" and Dorothy Heyward's famous "Porgy." Down the stacks from Olive Higgins Prouty's "Stella Dallas" is Vera Dean's "United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration" written as Research Director of the Foreign Policy Association...
...within 24 hours after the briefing, H-bomb pictures and descriptive stories were spread over papers across the U.S., and were on every radio and TV network. It was, said the New York World-Telegram and Sun, "the most mishandled thing Washington has seen since the disaster at Pearl Harbor was kept 'secret' long after everyone -including the enemy-knew our fleet had been wiped...