Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fresh, unquiet grave of evil? The U.S. and its postwar Allies had decided that the answer must be yes, if Europe (and all the West) was to have peace, prosperity and freedom. The German who more firmly than any other assured the U.S. that its decision had been wise, its hope not misplaced, was an aging, clear-eyed politician from the wine country along the Rhine: Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, without doubt the most important German since Hitler...
...production of 11.1 million tons; actually, West Germany's mills produce only 9 million. The country has 1,300,000 unemployed. Industry's gravest trouble: a severe shortage of credit to finance reconstruction. Both Germans and Americans have been loth to invest in German industry. Said one wise U.S. economist: "The critical question is still one of confidence...
West Germany were becoming louder. Wrote London's wise Economist: "It is quite impossible to think of neutralizing Germany . . . Germany must therefore be defended. Indeed it is in Germany that the defense of the West must begin, and that it might fatally end." To overcome Western Europe's inevitable resistance to arming Germany, military men have suggested that a Western German army be placed under the command of Western Union headquarters...
Rumor clung to him like filings to a magnet. Wise guys whispered knowingly that he had ordered the Beverly Hills murder of his old friend Bugsy Siegel, the shooting of Los Angeles Hoodlum Mickey Cohen and dozens of other cases of violence. In three months he had been charged with influencing politics in New York, Kansas City, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Crime commissions speculated feverishly that he owned gambling houses and nightclubs from Florida to California, controlled race wires across the nation, ran the baleful Unione Siciliana (i.e., the U.S. Mafia) and financed everything from narcotics smuggling to jewel...
Meanwhile a final official count of the School Committee election results on Monday showed that CCA-backed Robert Amory, Jr. '35, professor of Law, had lost first place in the vote to James J. Cassidy, an Independent. Others elected to the School Committee were: Pearl K. Wise, CCA; Thomas H. D. Mahoney, CCA; James F. Fitzgerald, Independent; and Francis J. McCrehan, Independent...