Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presented Hero Fitzsimmons with a $1,700 sedan (bought with a barrelful of nickels and dimes), enough luggage for a round-the-world cruise, a radio, shotgun, suit of clothes and a watch whose dial spells F.Fitzsimmons. Only other active major-leaguers who have won 200 games or more: Carl Hubbell of the Giants, Ted Lyons of the White Sox, Lefty Grove of the Red Sox, Red Ruffing of the Yankees...
...British Purchasing Commission's Sir Louis Beale told the delegates about British purchases and plans, a Manhattan importer named Carl Whitman jumped from his chair, shouted "Hey! When are you going to pay what you owe us?" Next to those, the convention's grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods...
...this power would hardly increase Defense production. Its real value is as a club to hold over a few recalcitrants. As one member of the Defense Commission told Correspondent Carl Allen of the New York Herald Tribune: "After all, you can get a lot more out of an organization by having it work with you willingly, than you can by trying to force it to do something...
...Manhattan, balding, moon-faced Exile Carl Joachim Hambro, for 15 years president of the Storting (Norwegian parliament), explained Norway's vulnerability to the Nazi attack: "Perhaps we loved butter better than guns...
...Carl Snyder is regarded by his friends and admirers as one of the world's wisest students of political and social phenomena, by his critics as an opinionated old windbag. He regards himself as a social scientist who brings scientific method to political prophecy and economic analysis. Onetime Federal Reserve Bank statistician, onetime president of the American Statistical Association, he is now retired to write about his findings (latest book...