Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help from Finland. Norway soon followed. What was the U.S. prepared to do if either took a firm stand against Russia? Then Ambassador Bedell Smith cabled from Moscow: Could not Congress be made to realize the imperative need for some action which the Russians would understand? Smith urged a soldier's solution: immediate enaction of U.M.T...
Said the New York Times : "There can be no doubt that his candidacy would command wide support in a national election." Almost all U.S. journals had praise for him as a soldier and a military governor, but wanted to hear MacArthur express his views. In Wisconsin, where his Republican supporters had centered their campaign, there was also jubilation. But there could be no doubt about it, in the first week the boos were larger than the cheers...
...Hate & Love. One was by an old soldier, onetime comrade in arms of Jan Masaryk's great father, Thomas, who won for Czechoslovakia her twice-killed independence.* The veteran spoke of love: "When Thomas Masaryk died, Jan told us, 'I have always loved you. Today I must love you even more to make up at least partly for the love of my father...
...soldier Dutra, the honest plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
...Only the gowns are medieval. Wigs first became fashionable in Europe in 1624, when King Louis XIII of France hid his premature baldness under a mop of false hair. For years afterward Britain's professional men continued to wear wigs that marked them as doctor, lawyer, soldier or clergyman. Today, Britain's judges and lawyers, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the clerks of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor all wear wigs on duty...