Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's hopes of peace in the Far East. With a plastic fountain pen from his desk set, President Harry Truman scratched his signature to the peace treaty with Japan and wrote in the date: April 15, 1952-just ten years, four months and eight days after Pearl Harbor...
President Truman yesterday signed the Japanese Peace Treaty which will formally end the struggle that began on Dec. 7. 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The State Department announced the treaty will become effective April...
...have waved the Great Depression and run for office against Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover. The Democrats' story was that they killed the dragon in 1932 (although it was so long adying that some economic pathologists say it really expired of arteriosclerosis and Pearl Harbor). The Democrats had been paid four times over for their feat, and the Amalgamated Dragonkillers (C.I.O.) could ask no more...
Divorced. By Pearl (Tired) Bailey, 33, Negro nightclub singer and musicomedienne (Arms and the Girl) : John Randolph Pinkett Jr., 37, her third husband, who, she charged: 1) interfered with her career, 2) hit her with a telephone, and 3) "split my skull open" with a pistol; after almost four years of marriage; in Las Vegas...
Mark Stevens is cast as a tight-lipped American sea captain sent to France to pick up gold bullion which is to finance the war of 1812. Stevens' crew, however, who fondly call him "Goody Goody," put him in irons after a few running engagements that put Pearl Harbor to shame...