Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even sad-eyed Charley Ross, the President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...Harry F. Byrd, as his running mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape if he waited too long to declare himself." And in Key West, Fla., where all political signals come in loud and clear while Harry Truman is in residence, the President told close friends he thought Ike was 1) a wonderful general 2) an amateur politician building hard toward the 1952 presidential race...
...assistance to spur a break with Moscow. Last week London's shrewd Economist analyzed the premises on which this argument is based, found them extremely shaky. The Economist's analysis gave sharp warning that the China Reds represent a clear and present danger to the West. Excerpts...
Most of the trouble arising from Chapter XI has centered on the question of reports which governing powers are required to submit yearly to the U.N. on the social, economic, and technical conditions in dependent territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...
Walter Raushenbush: House Committee Treasurer, Co-Chmn. of the Committee on the Student Council, Delegate to the West Point Conference on U.S. Officers, Phi Beta Kappa, House athletics...