Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief Executive took up his heavy task, he turned to another counselor, a trusted adviser on domestic affairs -big (6 ft., 230 Ibs.) Hugh Alfred Fulton, who had been counsel for the Truman (war investigating) Committee. In Washington there was little doubt that round-faced, high-voiced Hugh Fulton might wind up in the Cabinet, possibly as Attorney General...
...military aide and secretary-the post held by the late Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson. As his personal secretary the President took closemouthed Matthew J. Connelly, who had become his confidential secretary after last November's election. For press secretary, the job now held by round-faced, amiable Jonathan Daniels, there was talk of the veteran Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or younger (45) Samuel Amos O'Neal, ex-Post-Dispatch reporter who is now public-relations director for the Democratic National Committee...
...General Mario Roatta (TIME, March 12), the Duke said that all the judges should have been shot. Seated at the table was Sylvia Sprigge, veteran Rome correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. She was shocked by the Duke's remark. Later, at one of Rome's endless round of parties, she said...
...Round of Wails. Now it was Baron Suzuki's turn to call on the Army extremists. As custom dictated, before naming his new cabinet, he chatted with ex-Premier Koiso and with fanatical ex-War Minister Field Marshal Gen Sugiyama. While making his round of visits, the sirens wailed, and he spent an hour or so in a shelter as U.S. bombers raked the capital...
...busy with a conference-eve 'round-the-world documentary, Memo to the Future, turned out by radio's Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...