Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blare Raid. In Chicago, sleepless David Walanka reported a blaring horn to police, who found a short-circuited horn in the parked car of David Walanka...
...Supreme Commander painstakingly wrote and rewrote the short speech he would deliver (and practiced it aloud). He was writing for the ages...
...short order the Government: abolished compulsory military service, proclaimed the freedom of the press "after the nation settles down," abolished the Munitions Ministry and other wartime departments, revived the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, abolished wartime labor mobilization, established a board to supervise reconstruction, drafted a new budget emphasizing rehabilitation...
...temporary capital in Chungking the Generalissimo whirled through a week of high statesmanship. In a brief ceremony at the National Government building, he signed the United Nations Charter. When he put down his brush, he made his characteristic short, quick bow, murmured: "Hao hao, hao hao-very good, very good!" He looked deeply satisfied...
Divorced. Mervyn LeRoy, 44, M.G.M.'s short, cigar-smoking producer-director (Little Caesar, Anthony Adverse, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo); by Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of Hollywood's three Warner Bros.; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Reno...