Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen had failed to support most of his charges. Many a citizen thought the final word should come from the committee. In doing any speculating at all, Ed Pauley had technically (but, he claimed, unwittingly) violated the executive order forbidding Government employees to speculate; he had morally violated the tenet that public servants must be above suspicion. But was he guilty of using his public position for his private profit? The committee owed Ed Pauley, and the public, an answer...
...Errand Boy. Gravely, 76-year-old Cordell Hull sought to correct the impression that he was little more than an errand boy in a State Department actually bossed by Franklin Roosevelt. Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...
...picture was reminiscent of the terrible black & white mass of photographs that had illustrated the war and the war-crimes trials. It also recalled the fierce word pictures of how Old Testament warriors dealt with their enemies. It showed the mutilated bodies of 35 young Haganah fighters who had been ambushed by Arabs at Kfar Etzion, in the lonely hills of Hebron...
...dried deal that 66-year-old Louis St. Laurent would succeed him. There were other able (and younger) cabinet ministers in the running: Douglas Abbott (Finance), Brooke. Claxton (Defense), J. L. Ilsley (Justice) and James Gardiner (Agriculture). But the word had got around that St. Laurent had received the nod from Mackenzie King, and that alone put him far out in front. Besides, his succession would preserve the growing tradition of alternating
...three hours, each of the 40 snoozed in two sections of his laboratory (he could tell they were really asleep by means of an electroencephalograph, a brain machine with electrodes and straps reminiscent of electric chairs). Twenty students slept undisturbed; while the other 20 slept, records repeated the word list 30 times at intervals...