Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ten years before, Franklin Roosevelt had kicked up a national uproar when he was quoted as placing the U.S. frontier on the Rhine. But this time Bradley made his point from the lesson of recent history. The invasion of Normandy, Bradley reminded his listeners, had cost 21,000 U.S. casualties in the first ten days. The North Atlantic Treaty was the surest way to save the U.S. from making another such bloody invasion. Said Bradley: "I don't believe any nation would attack such a combination of friendly countries...
Secret Servicemen clustered about a big mansion on Washington's ornate Embassy Row one night last week like drones attending the queen bee. Inside, in the rococo, tapestry-hung ballroom of Anderson House, the President of the United States sat beaming before a heap of ten-cent-store toys and a big pink and gold cake topped by three candles. He puffed once and blew them out. The 70-odd guests-the Cabinet, some of the Supreme Court, the White House guard and their wives-applauded happily. House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposed a toast (in domestic champagne...
While the guests sipped & supped at ten round tables, Concert Pianist Jose Iturbi and Barriee Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
...pleading for votes against the Wood bill so that the Administration-controlled House Labor Committee would at least have a chance to frame a new law. They pointed out that passage of the Wood bill would be a complete surrender to the Republican minority. Some Southerners listened. Next day, ten who had voted for the Wood bill somersaulted and voted against it. It was breathtakingly close. Down went the Wood bill by a hairline vote...
...gates of the Ford Motor Co.'s sprawling River Rouge and Lincoln plants and onto the picket lines. C.I.O. loudspeaker trucks rolled into place. Square white placards carried the message: FORD IS ON STRIKE. It was the first mass walkout at Ford since 1941, when a bitter, ten-day strike forced stubborn old Henry Ford to recognize the union. This time U.A.W. had been painfully rallied by an old, three-alarm cry: "Speed...