Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his last turbulent years in public office, David Lilienthal had often turned the phrases over in his mind. They came easily last week as he wrote his letter to the President. "I submit herewith my resignation as chairman and member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ... to be effective at the close of business on December...
...letter was not a complete surprise (TiME, Nov. 28). Lilienthal had hinted broadly that, at 50, he had found it high time to divorce himself from Government salaries (present salary: $17,500) and start building for his own financial future. "These years have certainly been strenuous and exacting," he wrote, "but they have also been very rewarding, in every way except financially . . ." And, added articulate David Lilienthal, he had long wanted the chance to discuss the problems of the atom more freely "than is either feasible or suitable for one who carries specific public responsibilities...
...Cassini of the New York Journal-American, in whose Cholly Knickerbocker column she had read some of the Adler-Draper Red-bordered record. Cassini said the Journal-American would furnish her with information that Adler and Draper supported eight or nine Communist-front organizations. Fortified with the list, she wrote the Association...
West Germany were becoming louder. Wrote London's wise Economist: "It is quite impossible to think of neutralizing Germany . . . Germany must therefore be defended. Indeed it is in Germany that the defense of the West must begin, and that it might fatally end." To overcome Western Europe's inevitable resistance to arming Germany, military men have suggested that a Western German army be placed under the command of Western Union headquarters...
...ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard, I was happy," she wrote...