Word: clincher
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...argument is simple. Neither John Bricker nor any other reliable Republican wheel horse can beat Roosevelt in wartime. But "the people will really be voting for a Commander in Chief rather than for a President, and there are no credentials equal to Mac Arthur's upon that score." Clincher is the Washington-Jackson-Har-rison-Taylor-Grant-T. Roosevelt tradition of soldier heroes who have been swept to the White House on crests of military glory. Vandenberg is prudently holding his tongue in public "until the proper time...
What to Do. As a clincher for his argument that something must be done about paper work, the colonel offers the case of the first sergeant on Bataan who was seriously wounded while crawling across a fire-swept area to take the morning report for his company commander to initial. Can something be done about the surging flood of forms and orders? Colonel Gillette hopefully proposes that...
...fever, would have to appear to save his Government. But a Laborite saved the day: wiry, grey-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining 22, six had been deferred for further consideration, 16 had been accepted in principle...
...brief case last week Frank Knox pulled assorted reasons for extending Lend-lease. The House Foreign Affairs Committee was only mildly interested. But off his cuff the Navy Secretary produced a clincher: a by-product of Lend-Lease, said he, will be our Allies' willing ness to be generous about transferring Pacific bases...
Again during the early part of the last period the Yardlings carried the fight, but as Truesdale and Cowen began to wear down under constant strain, the team's offensive drive faltered, and the Harrison to Riley combination pounded the clincher past O'Neill...