Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Cain wanted to attack the appointment of a fellow Washingtonian, Truman Crony Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the vital National Security Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
...come to my attention that the CRIMSON on March 14 reported me as having said at the Liberal Union meeting the night before that "the United States should not force Holland to set Indonesia free because that colony provides many commodities vital to European recovery...
...United States could not properly take unilaterally; that such a step could be taken only with the consent of the Marshall Plan countries, relying upon Dutch contributions to general European recovery and numbering among themselves several colonial powers, would favor this action. The question of Indonesia providing commodities vital to European recovery was never mentioned; obviously Indonesia could provide such commodities whether or not it was under Dutch control. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38 Associate Professor of History
Schlesinger went on to argue that the United States should not force Holland to set Indonesia free because that colony provides many commodities vital to European recovery...
...inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...