Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
...Hitler was a baby compared with this gang," said ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman last week, in language that was tough even in an era of tough talk. "I don't think the American people have this world conflict in focus . . . Let's talk about it for what it is-an attempt by the gang in the Politburo to take over the world . . . If you have been out in Asia ... it gives you the heebie-jeebies...
With these words, the missionary representatives of 61 Protestant denominations last week faced up to a tough missionary situation-the Communist conquest in China. Meeting at Buck Hill Falls, Pa. for their annual four-day get-together, 145 delegates of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America found themselves up against the problem of whether to keep missionaries in Communist-dominated areas. The delegates found they were in almost complete agreement. No denomination intended to order its missionaries to evacuate. In all cases the decision was being left to the missionaries themselves. And for the most part, missionaries were electing...
...young businessman in a hurry. To work his way through college (his banker father had gone broke in the depression), Chuck Percy ran a wholesale business supplying the university's fraternities with food, coal, furniture and linen. He also held two other jobs, and captained the rough, tough water polo team. In the summer vacation of 1937 he took a job at $12 a week in Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras). For the next 11½ years he was in & out of Bell & Howell, but was seldom out of the mind of its president, Joe H. McNabb...
Resuming tomorrow against undefeated Boston College, the Crimson has two more tough games coming up before exam time. They meet Dartmouth Saturday at Hanover and Northeastern next Wednesday back at the Arena...