Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short adventure lasted nearly two decades of U.S. peace, depression and total war, for the best years of Henry Stimson's life were still ahead of him. He was to become first Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, then-at 72-Franklin Roosevelt's gruff, wise and trusted wartime Secretary of War. Only last week did the long voyage come to an end. At 83, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson died of a heart attack at Highhold, his rolling, 123-acre estate on Long Island...
Most of this was old hat. It meant, as always, a settlement of the German issue on terms favorable to Red conquest. In Berlin, Communist-wise Mayor Ernst Reuter observed: "We've heard these proposals a hundred times. The Russians know that they are no basis for serious negotiations. We can't touch anything that doesn't first off promise free elections in all Germany . . . The Russians are speculating on finding weak spots in the Western armor, and they may well find them...
Ferdinand Eberstadt is a wise and hard-headed financier, a wartime vice chairman of the War Production Board. In a recent speech in Seattle, Eberstadt made some wise and hardheaded points about U.S. foreign policy and the state of the world. Said...
...Flags West was written and produced by Casey (The Macomber Affair) Robinson with obvious enthusiasm. Director Robert Wise gets much of the authenticity of Brady's famed Civil War photographs into the bleak details of the P.W. camp and the isolated frontier post. Jeff Chandler (who was the upstanding Indian chief in Broken Arrow) plays the bitter and contemptuous commanding officer of Fort Thorn with such conviction that he very nearly steals the picture from Stars Cotten and Darnell. When the Kiowas come swarming into the fort, Two Flags West ends with just about as rousing an Indian fight...
...According to another legend, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco (Camels) has also been advised by letter writers to use the slogan "In Ancient Times, Camels Carried Wise Men." The ad reader would supposedly supply the converse. The legend among hucksters is that Reynolds has avoided using the first half because it feared American Tobacco would supply the second half in its ads: "In Modern Times, Wise Men Carry Luckies...