Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked him: 'Why haven't you told me?' " Two days later she had an answer back. Her father told her that he had changed his name 70 years ago and never thought to tell...
...Truman just before it was handed to the newsmen, broke up after an hour-long discussion. In the Capitol, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon sat down with his Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and AEC officials behind drawn shades. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was asked what he thought of the news. "It's the kind of thing you can't think about on a straight line until you've put it aside for 48 hours," he replied...
...served in World War II at a desk job in Washington. Home again as a brigadier general in the Army Reserve, Mellon took off his uniform and thought even harder. On the night he and Mrs. Mellon returned to Pittsburgh the city was engulfed in black smog so thick that from the William Penn Hotel they could not see the lights of the Mellon National Bank, half a block away...
Only in housing were the planners not moving as fast as some people thought they should. The federal housing bill would help, but estimates were that 60,000 Pittsburghers needed low-rent housing. The best Pittsburgh could hope for was adequate housing by 1970. R. K. Mellon, Davy Lawrence and the others maintained that first things came first. Industrial Pittsburgh had to be rescued first; that was the foundation of the whole town's economy...
Schumacher turned to economics, called for British-style Socialist planning. He was interrupted by a deputy from the far right who cried out: "Just like under the Nazis!" Schumacher turned to his heckler, snapped: "Gentlemen, I thought you were the Nazis, not the British...