Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Folks' Home. But if Green was not born to be a hero, the A.F.L. was satisfied with him. He was eternally troubled by the brass knuckles which labor displayed to the world in years of bitter organizational and inter-union wars. And he tolerated and refused to interfere with the machinations of thugs like Willy Bioff, George Browne, George Scalise, James Bove, et al. Nine months before Scalise, the gangster king of the Building Service Union, was convicted of stealing members' dues, Green blandly asked Franklin Roosevelt to wipe out an earlier conviction for white-slaving so Scalise...
...nine European Communist Parties met to reorganize "the general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
Helped by Northwestern University's famed Surgeon Paul Magnuson, who had long wanted to team up veterans' hospitals with medical schools, Hawley began to train and attract topnotch doctors. Over the opposition of some big brass, he got a law taking the V.A. medical corps out of Civil Service and raising fees so that he might hire the ablest specialists as consultants...
...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
...Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment. This gives Author Karig (himself a captain in the Naval Reserve) a chance to set up a gallery of fine portraits in brass and then paint mustaches on them...