Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Atomic Bomb: The President told the Prime Minister that he would let him know whenever he thought the U.S. might have to use the Abomb. This was a part victory for Attlee, who had been shocked by the President's recent remark that the U.S. was considering use of the bomb. He got an assurance that Britain would be notified of any such intention...
...Attlee visit had one other effect, which the British perhaps intended. It delayed any more forthright statement of, policy from the White House. While Attlee was in the U.S., the President had deliberately refrained from making any pronouncement which might have pointed up the differences between the two allies. The President had to confine himself to what they could say with one voice. It was probably less than what he himself wanted to say, and certainly less than the clear, firm declaration of U.S. intentions that the country was waiting to hear...
...Interventionist Douglas* implying that he might become an isolationist? "No, I am not saying that, but I'm saying that we cannot afford to defend people who will not either defend the peace of the world, or defend themselves...
When the clerk told him the three-day waiting period might be waived, he was delighted. He hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
Federal Judge James P. McGranery rejected the U.S. Attorney General's recommendation, and meted out the heaviest prison sentence possible under the espionage law-30 years. He did it, the judge said, "to deter others in the future," and pointed out that under the law, he might have sentenced Gold to death...