Word: ap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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P.A.C. had charged that Governor Dewey deliberately made it difficult, even impossible, for New York members of the Armed Forces to vote by refusing to ap prove the Federal War Ballot. In reply Tom Dewey hammered two points: 1) the Federal War Ballot, which provides a place to vote only for the President, Vice President and members of Congress, would not be valid in New York because the State Constitution specifies that every candidate running must be listed; 2) it is easy for a soldier to vote under the Dewey-sponsored law. Federal law requires that each soldier & sailor shall...
...have been or will be approved by Congress. I can't answer the first of these questions because of the secrecy which surrounds the Bretton Woods conference, but I can say that in my opinion no agreement for an international monetary fund on the terms [proposed] will be ap proved either by the Senate or the House." On the first count, Senator Taft must have been too busy to inform himself...
...ships lying in the rough-water anchorages of the Bay of the Seine gave the first clue that the invasion was running behind schedule. The second was in the slow deepening of the bridgehead: an average of barely three miles a day. So it was that soldiers, who had ap proved General Eisenhower's gamble on the weather, retreated from their first optimistic judgments of the invasion,, which were based on the relative ease with which all but one of the scheduled landings were accomplished, the low casualties, the slow ness of German reaction, the virtual absence of the Luftwaffe...
These basic radar principles are by now well known to all the belligerents. But OSRD's newer instruments have greatly increased radar's usefulness. One new ap plication which has already been revealed is the use of radar with antiaircraft guns to direct fire...
...director of the Cleburne Na tional Bank, a member of the Board of Regents at Texas State Teachers College, president of the Texas League of Women Voters, Texas chairman of the Women's Committee for the New York World's Fair. In 1941, the War Department ap pointed her boss of a new women's publicity bureau, set up to sell the Army to the wives and mothers of the men. A year later final honors crowned her: the Army invited her to be chief of the WAACs. Mrs. Hobby moved on Washington...