Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers for shipment to America; in return the U.S. shipped low-grade corn meal to Japan. They discussed the Atlantic pact as "The Prelude to World War...
...King's summer palace, 16 miles from Athens, and suggested a Tsaldaris-Venizelos coalition-let each be Premier for three months, in rotation. Many things are possible in Greek politics, but not that. The King said no; instead, without telling Tsaldaris, he decided to give the premiership to War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos, one of Greece's few first-rate administrators. U.S. officials were delighted with the King's choice...
...Down. The public campaign was as plain-spoken as the anti-VD drives directed at servicemen during the war. Motorists in Arkansas found themselves questioned by billboards: "Have you got syphilis?" Barflies put nickels in Washington jukeboxes to hear a Negro quartet sing Put It Down, an appeal to stamp out VD. The Columbia Center was about to issue a recording by Balladeer Tom Glazer of a twangy song called An Ignorant Cowboy. Its last stanza...
...things the Dutch learned to like about the Germans was their zeal for opera. The Germans started a Dutch opera with native singers and musicians and the Dutch loved it. At war's end, they decided to keep it. Last week, at Holland's third annual music festival in Amsterdam and Scheveningen, music lovers saw the decision magnificently justified. The new Netherlands Opera gave as fine a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice as had been heard in years. The cast got a dozen curtain calls and a standing ovation from happy Am-sterdamers and their...
...Dutch Gift. The man who did most to make it "quite all right" is ruddy, energetic Paul Cronheim, 56, prewar manager of the Concertgebouw. One of his first acts when he became director of the opera after the war was to send a cable to San Francisco: "Pierre, you must come and save...