Word: cluck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate: CJ Ignoring the President's veto threat, tacked a rider to the minimum wage bill permitting a farmer to include farm labor costs in computing parity prices. CJ Received a Banking Committee recommendation that Harry Truman's old friend and naval aide, Commodore James K. ("Commodore Cluck") Vardaman, be confirmed for a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board...
...Nazis also cluck haughtily over pictures of a U.S. Congressman playing a guitar on the Capitol steps, of Hedda Hopper hats, of American adolescents doing the Lindy Hop as samples of "degenerate" life in a democracy...
Police confessed themselves as baffled by Kasherman's murder as by Guilford's and Liggett's, still officially listed as unsolved. Minneapolis' legitimate newspapers cluck-clucked properly over Kasherman's death, hoped that the latest killing would do what police and city officials had failed to do: put a stop to blackmail parading as journalism...
From William Green, who likes to cluck about the purity of the chicks in his A.F. of L. brood, came nary a cluck last week. The Federal Government had stalked into his yard, stalked off again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One was tough, slick George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president and member of Mr. Green's executive council. The other was a onetime Chicago pimp-200-lb., frog-faced William ("Willie") Bioff. The charge against them: extortion...