Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of the little eight-year-old Italian boy learning to read Braille with his nose and lips [TIME, June 7] should help to rouse fortunate Americans to their duty to send aid to the children of Europe...
Indiana's chubby Governor Ralph Fesler Gates, who had helped send Jenner to the Senate two years ago, could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...
...Lake Success Russia's Andrei Gromyko angrily insisted that Russia, too, be allowed to send truce officers. That was the last thing U.N. wanted. But how could...
...Then I said, 'Mr. President, I would send for Harry Woodring and I would say to him, "Harry, it is either Dublin, Ireland, for you, or Topeka, Kansas."' The President looked at me, somewhat abashed. Reading his mind, I said, 'You can't do that sort of thing, can you, Mr. President...
...Cairo he wore a white tropical suit, in Tel Aviv a grey bemedaled uniform. He also brought considerable Red Cross experience as an intermediary between belligerents. In World War II he had arranged an exchange of disabled German and British prisoners of war, later persuaded the Nazis to send some 15,000 Norwegian and Danish hostages to Sweden...