Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman thanked the people who arranged the breakfast for placing "Steamboat" Johnson behind a pillar "where he couldn't see me." From behind the pillar Steamboat-Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. Monroe Johnson, an honorary member of Battery D-piped up: "If you think we did something for you in Washington last time [at the Battery D Inauguration-Day breakfast], just wait until the next time Captain Harry is President and see what we can do." Startled, Harry Truman laughed. "All those newsmen," he cautioned, "will think it's a plant...
...temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist to my hotel this morning and he tried to lobby me. He said you offered him a job in Korea...
...Germany. He liked to sit up late with his memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here." A U.S. Military Government court in Frankfort this week sentenced McCarthy to eight months in prison for entering Germany illegally. McCarthy, surprised at the sentence, said he would...
...they are knocking over a straw man. The Church teaches (horror of horrors) that a Catholic cannot be married in the eyes of the Church except before a priest. Mr. Blanshard makes this delicate and purely religious matter clear only by implication in the footnotes which are grouped, I think unfortunately, at the end of the book. The rhetorical implication is that Catholics, encouraged by the teachings of their "costumed" clerics, view Protestant and Jewish marriage as conjugal union in a rabbit hutch...