Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator from South Carolina, War Mobilizer and Supreme Court Justice, James F. Byrnes was one of the strong right arms that helped Franklin D. Roosevelt fashion his New Deal. After Roosevelt's death, shrewd, spry Jimmy Byrnes stayed on in Washington, became Harry Truman's first Secretary of State. Last week, Jimmy Byrnes was busy at his newest enthusiasm-heaping hot coals on the Fair Deal as "creeping but ever advancing socialistic programs." Fit as a fiddle at 70, Jimmy Byrnes also provided his own story of the heart attack which precipitated his departure from the Truman Cabinet...
...Making OEEC, now mainly an advisory body, ECA's chosen instrument of integration, with clear responsibilities and enough political weight to compel member nations to abide by its decisions. One important step toward this goal: appointment of a strong OEEC secretary (possible candidates: Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, now ambassador to the U.S., and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, first President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe...
Thanks to its taciturn strong man, Police Chief José ("Chichi") Remón, Panama had three Presidents last week...
Legality at the Palace. That convinced Remón that he would have to try a third President. Even before the court spoke, the disgusted strong man cried: "If they want legality, I'll give them legality. I'll give them Arnulfo...
...stars, but acted in the old arm-flailing tradition that has long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong man, and Risë Stevens as a self-conscious seductress, the opera never got out of low gear. But in this case it was almost wholly the fault of Composer Saint-Saëns: his slow-moving Samson and Delilah is more often oratorio than opera...