Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Know Each Other." Gone was the Big Three's intangible, invaluable personal relationship. Nothing that Harry Truman might be or do could mend the ties of shared danger, joint responsibility and constant communication which bound Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. The dead President had described the nature and value of that relationship in his last major speech, his report to Congress on Yalta...
Dear Jimmy. Washington knew, too, that while there had been no break between Byrnes and the President, their intimate relationship had sometimes been strained by the peculiarly personal vagaries of White House politics. Last year, Byrnes had been summarily taken out of the race for the Vice-Presidency. There was a time after that when he might have been Secretary of State. Finally he failed to get his friend, Ben Cohen, a job as counsel in the State Department...
Enlisted men had more inflexible ideas about how their wives should be spending their spare time: movies, luncheons, bridge parties, they thought, should be the limit. Officers, for the most part, were more tolerant: they would not object to their wives going around with men so long as the relationship was strictly platonic...
...plot, it did not make itself illuminating, touching, and delightful. The tortuous protocols of preparation for the duel, and the duel itself, between the brave but reluctant contestants, is as pretty a satire on diplomacy and war and national character as the movies have achieved. Candy's relationship with his beloved girls, reticent, boyishly idealistic and far more deeply felt than the eye can see, is a moving exposition of a kind of love the movies rarely pay attention to. The life history of the subtle German and the sanguine Englishman culminates in a beautiful study of two kinds...
...last week's opinion, there was still some comfort for Alcoa and Judge Caffey. The court found no proof that: 1) Alcoa had monopolized bauxite deposits or waterpower sites; or 2) Alcoa and Aluminium, Ltd., had any corporate relationship, even though the Mellon family and Alfred Vining Davis owned a controlling interest in both...