Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...from ended. One day Nelson blandly called the WPB staff together for a "harmony" meeting, asked Wilson to say "a few words." Said Wilson: "I have already resigned." In a letter to President Roosevelt he accused Nelson's friends of planting newspaper stories calculated to make his life unbearable. "I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts," Wilson wrote. F.D.R. sent him home with a "Dear Charlie" letter and praise for "outstanding service...
...voice of the isolationist-give up one's allies, draw back into the Western Hemisphere, spend mainly to make the U.S. strong-was heard again in the land last week. It was neither "the main tide . . . running" nor the intuitive common sense of "the great mass of the people," as Pundit Walter Lippmann implied. But there was indeed "subterranean muttering," as the Alsop Brothers reported. And in a speech by Joseph Patrick Kennedy, millionaire financier and onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the mutterings surfaced and were clearly heard. If Kennedy's words...
Pearson, a $300,000-a-year capitalist type with a clear anti-Communist record, was thrown on the defensive in this headbutting session, if only because it seemed to make his $5,000-a-week radio sponsor, Adam Hats, slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel...
Willie had quite a few ideas on morality. When asked about the "mob," he shot back: "People are mobs that makes 6% more on the dollar than anybody else does," and added: "Jeez, everything is a racket today. The stock market is a racket. Why not make everything legal?" The audience laughed and Willie was pleased...
...moving toward a kind of Monroe Doctrine for China . . ." In the next two days, the Assembly overwhelmingly approved the cease-fire resolution. Only Russia's Jacob Malik objected. He insisted on withdrawal of all U.N. forces from Korea. Ceasefire, he cried, was "merely a camouflage designed to make it possible for American forces to continue . . . their act of armed aggression...