Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long denied sweets. Franklin Roosevelt had bypassed him as his choice for Vice President in 1944; for what it was worth, he was now next in line of succession to the U.S. Presidency. More important, Franklin Roosevelt had bypassed him as his Secretary of State, and Harry Hopkins had short-circuited much of Byrnes's advice when Byrnes was "assistant president." Jimmy Byrnes was now the President's chief adviser and chief policymaker...
...Prime Minister is short, shifty-eyed Admiral Petros Voulgaris. He harps on two points: 1) the need for "security"; 2) the right of Greece to northern Epirus. now a part of Albania. When I asked what he thought of Americans and Britons in Greece, he said: "I wish they would stay here forever." There is only a handful of U.S. soldiers; the British have several divisions...
...President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman at the head of the conference table...
This week 20 of them descended (20 more were expected) on the little seashore town of Camden, Me., which calls itself "The Harp Center of the Universe." From now until September, except for the short hours from midnight to dawn, the ring of their gold-plated harps will argue with the soft whisper of wind in the firs and the beat of the sea against the cliffs of Penobscot...
...least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well-potted palms...