Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silent Service. No one knows better than U.S. submariners themselves how deadly a sub can be. In 1941, when the proud surface Navy suffered the disaster of Pearl Harbor, a handful of nerveless men had pointed the sharp prows of so-odd U.S. subs toward Japan and written a record of blood and battle unsurpassed in U.S. naval history. Not one of them had ever before fired a torpedo in battle (U.S. subs engaged mainly in uneventful patrol work in World War I), but for two years they were almost the entire U.S. offensive force in the Pacific...
...have had a bipartisan foreign policy in this country since Pearl Harbor. I would like to keep it that way. I know a great many Republicans who want to keep it that way too. Now is the time to put a stop to the sordid efforts to make political gains by stirring up fear and distrust...
...25th year as a radio network. On the opening program, Veteran Announcer Ben Grauer interviewed Bandleader Vincent Lopez, whose orchestra was the first on the network air, and the recorded excerpts from the past quarter-century included a joke by Ed Wynn, the first news flash of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt proclaiming the "rendezvous with destiny...
Stuart D. D. Pearl, 1'35, 1 Garden Court, Middle Temple, London, E.C. 4, England...
Categorical Imperative. Vis-à-vis Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...