Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fixed periods. Dr. Morgan was first to raise the question of White House control over the appointed officers of such corporations as TVA. Although Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson has opined that the President has ample power to get rid of Dr. Morgan, that persistently righteous man holds one ace: a section in the TVA act which says a director may be removed by concurrent House and Senate resolution, says nothing about Presidential power to fire...
While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...
...York Post, had bought from Mr. Turrou, 15 minutes after he resigned, an "authentic" inside story behind U. S. Grand Jury Indictments of 14 German officials! On two excited pages, embellished with a Nazi air bomb plunging down on U. S. warships in the Panama Canal, Publisher Stern shouted: "ACE G-MAN BARES GERMAN CONSPIRACY TO PARALYZE UNITED STATES!" Tired Mr. Turrou was going to turn out enough articles to run "for several weeks." Said he in Publisher Stern's advertisement: "I Can Tell You That a confidential conference between President Roosevelt and a foremost naval designer, held secretly...
...Great pressure has been brought to bear upon French political circles by British diplomacy," cabled French Ace Political Commentator "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) to the Chicago Daily News. To the same newsorgan, London Correspondent William H. Stoneman wrote: "The British Government wants Rebel Generalissimo Franco to win the Spanish War and to win it in a hurry." British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain refused last week to act to protect frequently bombed and sunk British ships in Leftist ports...
Lefty Wilfred Lefebvre is the likely Holy Cross pitcher. Until B. C. beat him 3 to 0 last Monday, the Purple hurling ace was undefeated in seven encounters. Art Kenney, who tripped the Varsity a week ago and let Yale down Wednesday, is another Crusader whom Jack Barry may summon to the mound...