Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in 1945, she went to work for the Americans. There she is today, a DP among her own people...
...Hell. The hysteria of those days, the President went on, had subsided soon after Jefferson took office, and the country had not gone to hell after all. It was not going to hell today. The present hysteria, as he called it, was the kind of thing which happened after every great crisis and every great...
Franklin Jr. had a well-prepared little statement for newsmen: "My only political intention is to represent my constituents of the 20th District of New York . . . I'm not a crystal-ball gazer, and therefore don't go any further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went to the White House to assure President Truman of his loyalty. "We had a nice chat," reported Congressman Roosevelt. "I told him there was no question that I was a member of ... the team of which he was captain and quarterback." A reporter wanted to know if he felt...
...surface, the lives of J. Robert and Frank Oppenheimer resembled a brotherly game of follow-the-leader. Robert became a nuclear physicist; so did Frank, who is nine years younger. Robert helped invent the atomic bomb; Frank went to work on the A-bomb project. Last week the brothers appeared before congressional investigating committees, but beyond that there was no similarity in their performances...
...committee handled sad-faced Frank Oppenheimer gently. When he finished his testimony, Senior Investigator Louis J. Russell told the committee that it was only fair to let the record show that General Groves knew all along that Frank Oppenheimer had been a Communist who had broken clean before he went to work on the atomic bomb. "And," added Russell, "Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty was vouched for by an outstanding scientist." Russell didn't name the outstanding scientist to the committee, but confided it to newsmen afterwards. It was brother Robert...