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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection board's revised list, the President still had taken no action on it. Under the circumstances, however, there was little he could do but approve it. For doing his assigned job well and in complete obedience to the orders of his superiors, 31-Knot Burke, for the first time in his 26-year career, had been stopped cold...
While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
...Government persisted. Last week, after a look at the first few houses in the project, the Celilos decided that the move might not be such a bad idea after all. Admitted Chief Thompson, who had already spent a night in his: "It didn't rain...
...Peking to Moscow to pay fealty to Joseph Stalin. A Soviet diplomatic mission met Mao at the Manchurian border, put him on the Trans-Siberian railway, escorted him all the way to Moscow (ten days, some 3,500 miles). So far as is known, it was Mao's first trip outside his native land...
Other officials followed him. This week the Knesset held its first session in the Jewish Agency building of Jerusalem's New City. Most of the government started functioning in Jerusalem. But shrewd Ben-Gurion left his Foreign Ministry behind in Tel Aviv, sparing foreign diplomatic missions the embarrassment of having to decide whether or not to follow the Israel government to its new capital...