Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bill Boyle came to his reward. Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who is loyal but no mover and shaker, was called to the White House, gently given the word. Then McGrath announced that Boyle would be executive vice chairman, run headquarters, share in policymaking. There was much more to it than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
Certainly Gyoergy was unbowed. "I don't retract one single word," he stormed. "I'd do it again any time . . . The American players ... are a bunch of dollar-imperialist puppets, reactionaries and betting braggarts." Shamefaced Hungarian players, who did not share the fire-eating Communist's opinions, privately apologized to the U.S. team. After the Hungarian team won the Swaythling Cup, even Gyoergy grudgingly relented: "It's a pity I said all this. It chips off some of the glory of the Magyar victory...
...After six months of negotiations, the Atlantic pact powers had agreed that an attack upon one nation was to be regarded as an attack upon all. Each nation was required to take "military or other action" to help the nation attacked. Senators Connally and Vandenberg balked, insisting that the word "military" be cut out, making the clause read that the parties would take "action...
From Egypt last week came word that in the fullness of her 90 years, she had died in a Cairo...