Word: bower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, he assembled his team of 24 Governors and his right bower, Vice Presidential Nominee John W. Bricker, and put them right to work. If any of the Governors had envisioned his trip to St. Louis as a midsummer junket, full of fun & games, he was sorely disappointed. Candidate Dewey had his class report at 10 a.m. the first day, and the atmosphere was clearly one of Positively No Excuses for Tardiness...
...sent to the Pacific. After the Battle of Midway, he became chief of staff to able Admiral Chester Nimitz, who said earnestly: "Nothing you can say about him would be praise enough." In an office overlooking Pearl Harbor he settled down to being Nimitz's right bower and helping to plan the Pacific...
...London stirred with rumors that Churchill was about to reorganize his command system. Was the up-&-down hero of Libya and Ethiopia, General Sir Archibald Wavell, to be Churchill's military right bower? No one knew. Churchill had never really warmed to Wavell-at least until recently. But Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was Wavell's favorite; the separation of Sir Henry's command from that of General Alexander in Egypt and Syria had long been General Wavell's idea. London expected to hear more of Wavell, and of his plans for close Anglo-American contact with...
...Ashamed." Last week in Cleveland another hero spoke up bluntly. After listening to the Kiwanis Club discuss when & where to hold its picnic, up rose Lieut. William M. Bower, one of the 80 airmen who bombed Tokyo. Said he: "It's no picnic out there for your sons. They are having no good times. It is no time for good times. I'm disappointed by what I have found since I got back to my country. I'm disappointed at the failure of the people to realize that we are in a war-a war that...
Millions of Britons last week might have been inclined to feel that there was some pith in Commander Bower's remarks on Winston Churchill's war effort. But, considering his past references to Emanuel Shinwell's Polish ancestry, his bracketing of the First Lord, however fantastically, with Britain's worst enemy. Commander Bower seemed loose-tongued and his motives dubious. His speech only pointed up the fact that, although much of the criticism of Winston Churchill has come from the extreme left, he has been catching it just as hard from the far right...