Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next month, let someone else (probably a U.S. official already in London) represent him. The State Department's young Alger Hiss, able Secretary General of the San Francisco Conference, had declined the honor. So had Hiss's colleague, Leo Pasvolsky, who dotes on world affairs but dislikes travel. Stettinius expected to see the Charter through the Senate, stay in the U.S. until the full commission gathers in London in September...
...other transports docked last week. In two days, they disgorged 39,695 G.I.s, the biggest disembarkation of the war. As the troops climbed into long lines of rail coaches and Pullmans, and rumbled off to camp, many a battle-weary veteran bitterly resented the way he was forced to travel...
...they might get. It ordered U.S. railroads to pool all their passenger and baggage cars, so that they will be on tap to meet Army demands. This was partly scare talk, to keep civilians off trains. But it was also a plain warning that, from now on, civilians will travel only at the pleasure of the Army...
Last week Wallace pitched his second successive shutont by whitewashing the Camp Edward team, four to nothing. Swegan paced the hitters with two safeties. Yesterday the Crimson played the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron at Melville, and Saturday they travel down to Quonset to engage the Carrier Aircraft Unit...
...unlike any other proconsul who had ever been seen in India. Hitherto it had been deemed a necessity to surround the Viceregal office with a pomp and pageantry that would dazzle even India's dazzling princes. Wavell's predecessor, Lord Linlithgow, a thrifty Scot, used to travel around India in a luxurious, cream-colored train because "Indians are impressed by these things." The new Viceroy arrived in India in a rumpled lounge suit. Instead of taking the royal route through Bombay's imposing "Gateway to India," he went direct to New Delhi. He shunned parades, fanfares, ceremonial...