Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislation making the Speaker of the House, after the Vice President, next in line for the presidency. If Truman should die in office, that would make Speaker Joe Martin President. From the Senate, where there are as many presidential hopefuls as there are Republicans, there came not a word...
Wealthy from Lava. In Colombia's heartland, enterprise is the key word. Unlike most of South America, Antioquia has never been feudal. Topography was against a feudal land economy. Poor but independent peasants scratched for a living in the pinched valleys and on the mountainsides...
Holy Terror. Artur Rodzinski is a professional, in the strongest sense of the word: he is a professed musician. He regards music as his calling, and himself as consecrated to it. His devotion to his calling is selfless-though his selflessness is sometimes as hard to take as another man's selfishness...
Chumminess is Catoctin's keynote. "Of course," chuckles Roosevelt to Baruch, "you won't be interested in [sandwiches] made with that ham from Georgia, but there are some . . . made of sanitary Wisconsin cheese, just for you." Mr. Churchill often bounds off into sonorous oratory, uses words like "bloody" and "jolly." Mr. Baruch is a wise elder statesman who can feel things "in his bones." Mr. Hopkins, who represents the frustrated New Dealer, is sincere but tart, and has to be reprimanded by Roosevelt for using the word "stink" in front of Mr. Churchill. Author Franklin, who once worked...
...Word According to Welles. As a political statement, The Catoctin Conversation is warmly sponsored in an introduction by onetime Assistant State Secretary Sumner Welles. Stripped of its high jinks, the Conversation hinges on postwar Anglo-American-Soviet relations. To Churchill, rigorous Anglo-American unity is the best answer to Uncle Joe; to Roosevelt, such unity must never be carried to a point where it excludes Soviet-American harmony, nor must the U.S. take sides in Anglo-Soviet rivalry. "In his talks with me," says Sumner Welles, "Roosevelt never wavered in [this] conviction...