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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7; ten days later, surrounded by 20,000 revolutionary soldiers under General Horatio Gates, they laid down their arms...
...Truman pitched horseshoes with his staff, bobbed placidly in the blue-green Atlantic waters, sometimes dropped in to chat with reporters on a companionable first-name basis. It was during one such informal visit-at a party for White House Secretary Matt Connelly-that one newsman casually observed that General Dwight D. Eisenhower seemed to be acting oddly like a presidential candidate. As casually, Harry Truman amiably agreed...
...Truman camp responded to this bluff and soldierly statement with alacrity. Speaking with some warmth, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced: "Apparently General Eisenhower is being heckled and embarrassed by stories [from] Key West. I cannot imagine what foundation there is for [them]. The President wants it to go on the record-he and General Eisenhower are good friends, and always have been. I'll say now, the President has not discussed with 'intimates' the possibility of General Eisenhower's becoming a candidate...
...hoped to wind up the job by February and get back to Columbia for the spring semester, but Secretary Acheson urged him to take on one final mission. This week Envoy Jessup boarded ship in San Francisco for a five-week swing through the Far East to talk to General MacArthur in Japan, visit Korea, Formosa, the Philippines, and end up in Thailand where he will preside over an extraordinary conference of U.S. chiefs of mission in southeast Asia...
...that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards; why should he take offense at our meager mode of life...