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Cambridge firemen, arriving on a book-and-ladder truck and a fire engine, showed little appreciation of their undue summons and remarked to questioning Yardlings that they were merely on a practice run. "Five Yard policemen were present to preserve the remaining modicum of order among north-entry residents.
Congress reconvened this week, in answer to Harry Truman's summons. Facing his ex-colleagues, the President then asked for the most sweeping controls over the U.S. economy which had ever been demanded by a President in peacetime. Congressmen, who had returned to Washington with their minds on the...
An Inner Conceit. In 1929, Hammerstein was divorced from his first wife and married mahogany-haired Dorothy Blanchard, daughter of an Australian sea captain. With her he answered a syncopated summons from Hollywood. He arrived on the Coast amidst expectant huzzahs. But soon he was weighed in Hollywood's...
In those brave days, Bao Dai (meaning: The Great Protection) was hereditary emperor of the Annamites in French Indo-China. But in August of 1945 he ran into a bird too big for him-Communist Ho Chih-minh. Elected President of the new Viet Nam Republic, Ho Chih-minh arranged...
The Old Worry. It was a hot day in August 1934. Lewis W. Douglas, now Harry Truman's Ambassador to London, had just resigned from the budget post in protest over the New Deal's heavy spending; Douglas had vainly championed a balanced budget. Morgenthau got a hasty...