Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the bright, personable U.S. propagandists in London were on OWI's payroll. CBS's restless William Paley, 43, his dog tag made by Cartier, bombarded Europe by radio. Litteratéur Lewis Galan-tiere plotted U.S. propaganda for France. Ace Hollywood Scenarist Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), intermittently in & out of London, Washington and Sicily since 1941, managed the OWI film division. Deep in publications & pamphlets: the Viking Press's wealthy president, Harold Guinz-burg, and wealthy George Backer (who was reported to be spending his idle hours translating...
...tag-end of a Friday press conference a reporter had wondered out loud about that mysterious question Joseph Stalin sent to the White House a fortnight ago. Oh, that, said Franklin Roosevelt absently. It was very simple, really. Soviet Ambassador Gromyko had come around to find out exactly how many ships the Soviet Union would get from the approximately 100 units of the surrendered Italian fleet. Because the U.S., Britain and Russia had jointly accepted Italy's surrender, the Soviet Government would, of course, eventually get its rightful one-third of the ships...
High above the river the big stone-and-stucco mansion house stood in its park, dignified, comfortable, a little shabby. Trees, paths, lawns and gardens, groomed carefully by five generations of gardeners, looked dull now in the winter tag-end. But inside the spacious mansion at Hyde Park there was warmth and gayety, perhaps in the flowered cretonne drawing-room-where afternoon coffee is a daily ritual...
...Forces men gave it another sardonic tag, "The Widow-Maker." Student pilots started out joking about it. ended up by scaring themselves. Training-field crashes added to the legend of the ship's habits: she needed "all of Texas" for the takeoff; she came in to land like a cold flatiron ; she stalled like a Model-T Ford running on kerosene. All that and much more...
...psychological warfare crews in the Mediterranean area. Off & on for a week he had been doing muscle building, studying pamphleteering, intelligence gathering, short-wave receiving at the indoctrination school on the vast Marshall Field estate on Long Island. Cartier, the dazzling Manhattan jewelry firm, had finished his dog tag...