Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This remarkable draftsman, the agents found, had made the cleverest copy of the Great Seal of the United States that they had ever seen. He had made his almost perfect copy of the U.S. spread-eagle not once but 90 times, on a 10 x 18-inch sheet of cardboard. The sheet was photo-engraved into a zinc cut of the same size...
...Samuel Hoare. "It is appalling that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob, after being Air Minister, Secretary for India, Foreign Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, should have been, installed at last in Madrid as the spokesman of the democracies. . . . No need to wish to harm him. He is what Britain made him. His proper job now is to be a gossip correspondent for a smart newspaper...
Civilian officials had already destroyed one last sign of U.S. sovereignty in the Philippines. They had burned the U.S. currency which had been transported from Manila banks. Washington, Lincoln, Grant, the Great Seal, the signature of Henry Morgenthau Jr., all had gone up in smoke. Now the last sign of sovereignty was to go. There was nothing more for men to hold...
...State Department's Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle, and seven other U.S. and British aviation "experts" talked over a pink-blottered mahogany table in the lime green, fresco-ceilinged conference room of London's ancient Gwydyr House (where The Beaver keeps his office as Lord Privy Seal). On the fifth day, The Beaver issued a vague press statement. So plushily vague was the statement that the dignified New York Times' London Bureau Head Raymond Daniell let fly with a parody of the diplomatic double talk...
...grumpy retaliation, Argentine customs authorities recently began to harass Uruguayans leaving Argentina. They took candy from children on the grounds that it contained material "necessary to Argentine economy," confiscated polo sticks of departing sportsmen. They even tried to take the official seal from a Paraguayan Minister. Last week they pulled the meanest trick yet: they seized the trophy which a Uruguayan football team had won in Argentina...