Word: states
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voter, taxpayer and lifelong resident of Washington state. I voted for assistance to the aged and blind people in this state. I did not do so "with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot," as you say. I am not a recipient of old-age assistance. You are a damn liar...
...stayed during his last days in the U.S. Visson, who was born in Russia and speaks five other languages besides Russian, found two notebooks among Barsov's effects. Visson translated the diary that night, gaining a clean newsbeat for TIME, then turned the notebooks over to the State Department...
After Cripps went home to devalue the pound, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin stayed on in Washington. He had a meal with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Vice President Barkley and Senator Tom Connally. Then Bevin and Acheson settled down with platoons of experts to compare their views of the world. They discussed...
...peace, of the effort to restore and extend prosperity and of the defense of the West against Communism. The roots of this cooperation strike deep into the histories of the two peoples. But friendship between nations, like marriage and moneymaking, requires attention to detail. As one U.S. State Department official expressed it bluntly last week: "International intimacy doesn't come naturally. There's nothing to all this guff about natural cousinly affection...
...Austrian peace treaty to an analysis of how to soothe ruffled U.S. feelings over the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty. Tactics are studied: Is the issue crucial enough for a personal visit by Franks to Acheson-or will more be gained by "underplaying" it and sending a counselor to his State Department opposite number? After 6½ years' experience in Washington, the Minister is pretty shrewd at pacing and directing the attack...