Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Washington and world politics last week, Dean Acheson gracefully picked his way, reminding a British journalist of a Velasquez grandee-tall and thin, quietly and elegantly garbed, in appearance, at least, the perfect diplomat. Despite seven years of Government service, many more years as an attorney with one of the nation's great law firms, he was still something of an enigma, even to his friends. Who was Dean Gooderham Acheson...
Sustained Meanness. These were measurements to apply in the future. Acheson had an assignment to carry out a policy already clearly outlined. The policy was to keep a hard eye on the Russian neighbor and to contain him on the ground he had seized. This was not the way Americans usually liked to behave. They liked to be on a friendly basis with everyone, and if there were any differences, have things out and get it over with. But the U.S. was going to have to be unneighborly for a good many years to come. It was a policy which...
Chairman Rankin could afford to gloat. To make revenge doubly sweet, he had a ready-made way of forcing the House to go on record: a new rule (TIME, Jan. 10), aimed originally at obstructionists like John Rankin, which permits any committee chairman to bring out a bill after the Rules Committee has pigeonholed it for 21 days...
...stern New England conscience. State auditors who had just examined Andover's books reported a shortage of $3,295.28. Nor were the Andover books the only ones in trouble: a recent state report showed that 21 towns had acquired deficits of more than $62,000, in one way or another...
...way home, after being asked to leave by the Hungarian government, U.S. Minister Selden Chapin had his own comments: "No one, except the blind and twisted, can fail to see that the Hungarian people are under the complete, total domination of a group of Moscow-trained Communists whose sole allegiance is to the Kremlin." Of the cardinal he said: "It is impossible to explain the transformation of that lion who was chief of the Hungarian Catholic Church...