Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments to the National Defense Mediation Board. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones rode on the Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused to inspect the new $40,000,000 naval air training station. And out on the fishing grounds a seaplane shuttled back & forth, bearing messages from Washington and answers from the yacht. To onlookers who watched the Potomac sail, the swastika on the Arauca...
...Confederation of Mexican Workers) is a sprawling, squalling, squabbling, red and red-hot Mexican edition of C. I. O. Under socialistic President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) its million members rode wide and handsome, cutting a fancy swath of strikes with Government approval, also cutting in on the benefits of Cárdenas' expropriations. But meeting last week in Mexico City, the 4,589 delegates to the annual CTM convention were puzzled, disunited, sore. The cause was just one man, Cárdenas' heir, Manuel Avila Camacho, whom the CTM had helped to elect President...
...Without a navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...
Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...
...work. When Private Rockefeller was sworn in, the newsreel cameras ground again. Blurted one draftee: "Why the hell don't they let the poor fellow alone?" But the newsmen stayed right with him -to the platform of the train on which he and 441 other privates rode off to camp...