Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen, in the main, were resentful of tough talk from the White House. But Harry Truman had found that he could not count on friendships and personal popularity on the Hill. Many wise Washingtonians thought that the President had worked himself into a position from which strong assertion of leadership would now be more difficult than it would have been at his Administration's beginning. In many a score book this was the one big error of Harry Truman's half year, and meant more trouble ahead...
...then, cool Jimmy Byrnes and cool Fred Vinson had cooled him off a little, had found his nimble, retentive mind valuable. Many a time Fred Vinson took a tough problem to his boy assistant, said merely: "Let's get this straightened out, Prich." He got results...
Between such outbreaks, French colonials raged that the British had botched the job. The Japanese, said Colonel H. J. Cedille, had armed the natives, incited them to riot and in some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi...
...bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...points. The producer's feminine touch can be seen in some intricately propped interiors and a very pretty sequence of a rain-drenched funeral procession. Gracie Fields' performance as the English spinster is near perfect. And Connie Bennett herself, who has lost nothing of her tough, wiry glamor with the years, gives fine style and energy to the international-smart-set aspects of her role. But she is unable to show deep emotion, physical suffering, or simple embarrassment...