Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good part of his 29-year career in trouble spots. As a diplomatic fledgling, he went through the Red Revolution in Leningrad, where he met a Russian princess, Myra Koudacheff, got her safely out of the country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile's disastrous 1938 earthquake. His dispatches continued to be unruffled, incisive, informative...
Upset. Perhaps the Senate's biggest upset was the defeat of Pennsylvania's gladhanding, snow-crested "Puddler Jim" Davis, 71, member of the Moose, Secretary of Labor under Herbert Hoover and a fixture on the public payroll since 1921. His successor, who rode the Roosevelt wind across Pennsylvania, is an all but unknown Philadelphia Democrat, 200-lb. Francis J. Myers, 42, who has served three plodding terms in the House...
...October, British-based heavies had a record month of 100,000 tons of bombs dropped, almost all of it on Germany proper. The U.S. Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy unloaded 13,100 more tons on northern Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Czechoslovakia. The Luftwaffe rode out the storm on the ground, and Allied losses were light, less than...
...news reached France shortly after Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose secret plan to be in Paris on the 26th anniversary of Armistice Day had leaked to all & sundry. But the Prime Minister brushed aside fears for his life. Dressed in an Air Marshal's blue uniform, he rode with General Charles de Gaulle through shouting crowds, laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's monument, bowed in silence at Marshal Foch's tomb, made a speech (in original Churchill French) to the shouting Parisians. High point: "We have had differences in the recent troubled years...
...Term IV. Walsh made the most of the insult. For four days he played "off again, on again" with Bob Hannegan, debating whether he would consent to appear with Franklin Roosevelt in Boston's Fenway Park, at the President's request. (He finally decided not to, but rode 44 miles on the President's train...