Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours of inquisition failed to shake Henry Wallace, except that Chairman Bailey forced him into a shadowy corner on the question of equity financing...
Same day President Roosevelt sent a formal message to Congress asking for the kind of bill his military leaders recommended, asking also that Congress take immediate action on the stopgap May-Bailey bill. In a joint letter Marshall and King once again backed...
...stopgap, Army & Navy top men would agree to the May-Bailey bill, which would penalize workers in nonessential jobs and force 4-Fs into war work. But they say that the only final solution in a total war is a national service...
...made my way back to base. As I crossed the canal, I saw that tanks were pouring over a pontoon bridge, and supply trucks were piling up where a Bailey bridge was being constructed. All being well, this battalion will be crossing another canal tomorrow night-it's onlv six miles farther...
Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago lawyer and amateur art collector, liked it enough to buy it at auction...