Word: yeomans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, Acheson thought, lay the hope of stopping Russian Communism. In his previous capacities at State he had done yeoman service in helping to prepare and win congressional approval of Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank and the Truman Doctrine. In a speech in the spring of 1947 he had outlined the ideas which George Marshall had taken up a month later, and which became the Marshall Plan. During the months immediately following Acheson's induction as Secretary, the West even held the momentary initiative. Acheson presided over the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty...
This week, for his yeoman work in safeguarding the lives and raising the health standards of both TVA workers and valley dwellers, Dr. Bishop, 64, got a top honor in his profession: a Lasker Award ($1,000 plus a gold copy of the Victory of Samothrace), given annually by the American Public Health Association. Three other Lasker awards went...
...Yeoman at Work. To fill the third spot on the CEA, Harry Truman named 48-year-old Dr. Roy Blough (rhymes with how), Pittsburgh-born son of a Church of the Brethren minister. President Truman got him from the University of Chicago, where he taught economics and political science...
Boyish-faced Dr. Blough is no stranger to Washington. He worked for Harry Hopkins in the early days of the relief program, later served Henry Morgenthau as a tax adviser when Morgenthau was Secretary of the Treasury. He did quiet, yeoman's work in both departments, has a national reputation as a tax expert...
...credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have sung of the countrysides Britons love, of the sports and sportsmen dear to their hearts and of the gallant voyaging that is the stuff of their history...