Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a grin: the elevator (to his second-floor quarters) had stopped; somebody had turned the power off; he did hope that there was no connection with what had happened in Philadelphia. Correspondents saw the President glance at his secretary, Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, heard Mr. Roosevelt stage-whisper to a companion: "He is grinning like a Cheshire cat." And well might Pa Watson have grinned: he won a $25 bet on Wendell Willkie's nomination...
...Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced every stage of Japanese aggression in China...
Last week the U. S. rearmament program was still largely in the blueprint stage. But up & down the economy, certain factories, from steel to handkerchiefs, were beginning to stir to the increasing drum roll of orders, real and promised...
This display upset the leading actor and the stage managers so much that Göring pursued Daladier, begging him to return. The Bull of the Camargue snorted, refused to come back until Hitler would be reasonable. Daladier returned to Paris with a new sense of power, and the resolve to rally his nation. Tactics which the Allies then belatedly began to fight: 1) Whispering campaigns. A relativly few hired whisperers could start - and also stop - on orders from Berlin, waves of defeatist rumors and false news which swept French society. In 1939 the French Government knew enough to take...
Position by position, the Crimson roster seems to be stronger than it was at this stage a year ago. Loren MacKinney and Gene Lovett, backed by Junior Joe Koufman and Sophomores Don Forte, Bill Barnes, and John Morgan should provide Dick Harlow with the best end play he has had at Harvard. Vern Miller is the only tackle holdover, and converted guard Don Lowry, Pete Elser, and Tom Gardiner are next in line, Bob Fisher and Tom Rogstad are a couple of Sophomores who may win consideration before the year is out, but right now Harvard looks woefully weak...