Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?" Secretary Chase's response was the motto, "In God We Trust," which first appeared on the bronz two-cent pieces...
Feather and the Salmon, a fairy tale written some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister, tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing good relations with the serpent...
With all the other reading they have to do, it is unlikely that any of the shapers of U.S. foreign policy ever took time out to read Feather and the Salmon. Last week as elegant, 51-year-old Christian Pineau arrived in the U.S. "to coordinate our policies," it was apparent that they might have missed something...
...since his college days. At first he planned to stay in Washington until June 1, with only a speech here, a bow there before the May 18 primary. But back home in Oregon last week, with the primary two weeks away, Old Campaigner McKay found himself struggling like a salmon making its way up the Columbia River...
...town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise the feasts. Forty extra taxicabs of 2O-year vintage had been driven into town over the new road from India. Pink and blue bathtubs, toilets by the dozen, chickens, ducks, guinea hens, smoked salmon and gallons of Coca-Cola had all been flown in over the mountains to brighten the occasion. A million Nepalese and some 400 foreign guests jammed the capital city of Katmandu (pop. 175,000) to enjoy them...