Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Military Affairs Committee read the labor-sponsored Murray-Kilgore reconversion bill. The bill's controversial core was a proposal for complete federalization of unemployment pay. It included a table of payments which ran up to $35 a week. Republicans cried: "Another WPA!" West Virginia's Senator Chapman Revercomb charged that workers in some brackets would get more pay when jobless than when employed. Eyeing the $35 top rates for workers made jobless by peace, he asked a troublesome political question: How could the U.S. pay only $20 a week to returned soldiers...
...just didn't get the pitching," said "Crash," in referring to the poor finishes his club made in '40 and '41, "but we had a great outfield--Chapman, Moses, and Johnson." Johnson especially rates high praise, for according to the Chief, "Bob Johnson is one of the greatest competitive ball players in the league." Davis also lauded veteran Al Simmons, grateful for the helpful pointers he gave...
...Biddle, seized Montgomery Ward's Chicago plant, Pat McCarran pulled on his war bonnet. He sent a committee agent to Chicago, subpoenaed WLB files, and jumped into the headlines with a promise of a fearless, "nonpolitical" investigation. For three weeks he and West Virginia's G.O.P. Senator Chapman Revercomb mulled over their evidence. Last week they reported...
...bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been unfaithful to her and she had fled desperately from Manhattan to the only refuge she knew...
Into Whitemarsh Hall, with its 45 bathrooms, moved the Metropolitan's Building Superintendent William Chapman. Into special vans went 90 loads of crated, padded masterpieces and objets d'art. In case of accidents, no van carried more than a million-dollar load. But the secret, heavily guarded trips proved uneventful...