Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil servant of the U. S. Broad-shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors of wealth -say Elmer has a heart of ice. The simplest way for the Federal Government to catch a crook is to look into his income-tax returns. Elmer Irey has done just that, long and efficiently. The story goes that big gamblers nowadays are careful to station a bookkeeper next to the croupier, to keep the figures straight for Elmer...
...Warren W. Rhoads, who wrote a solemn, copyrighted history of the trip for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc. Of their stay in Bergen: "Mrs. Harriman, our United States Minister to Norway, came aboard, a very fine lady. She thanked us all for the way we conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads to have Thanksgiving dinner with Maurice P. Dunlap, the consul: "After drinking...
...hard but just fate" is the way Gauleiter Arthur Greiser of Posen described the treatment meted out to the "subhuman Slavs...
Japanese diplomats try hard to act by Occidental standards of hard-headed opportunism, always end the Oriental way: face first, facts afterwards. Last week Japan chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled a hot lava of diplomatic hate on Great Britain over a comparatively microscopic incident - the stopping of the liner Asama Maru by a British cruiser while 21 German reservists were taken off (TIME...
...prices rose sky high, while the Tientsin American Chamber of Commerce prepared to appeal to Washington. This week the Japanese Cabinet met to discuss what must at length be discussed in every Japanese crisis: how to back down, save face, win new popularity with the Japanese people, leave the way open for renewal of friction...