Word: battlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...papers), testified: "The notion that I sit at my desk examining every piece of news as it comes in and saying 'publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord...
...Beau was through as a battler-even if he wouldn't admit it. In the locker room after the fight, he muttered through swollen lips: "I'd like one more fight-I'd like to get Williams again." Beau's share of the gate - $13,671- wasn't much to retire on after his manager got through taking...
Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement...
...World Federation of Trade Unions, was a consultant at the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Late in 1945 he headed a C.I.O. delegation which visited Moscow and Leningrad. In C.I.O. councils (he has been a top officer for eight years) he is a straight-talking battler against Communist influence in unions, preaches that Communist Party activities in this country are "a major barrier to true American-Russian understanding...
Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...