Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked the streets for hours that night, next day. Third day, he resigned in a letter charging that NLRB's "entire record is replete with rotten radicalism." He added that Mr. Saposs' lecture "was quite in keeping with your smelly Fansteel decision in which you sought to bestow a paternal benediction on sit-down strikes." Board Secretary Nathan Witt forthwith fired Mr. Davidson for his "false and scurrilous letter." This made Mr. Davidson really mad. "How can they fire me? I quit first...
...highest honors the Chinese Government may bestow on a foreigner came last week to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., national chairman of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China. Presentation: the Grand Cordon Bleu of the Order of Jade, at the hands of Ambassador Hu Shih in Manhattan...