Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made Holland Smith the foot soldiers' counterpart to Richmond Kelly Turner, the Central Pacific's admiral who commands the warships that fire on atolls and the transports that deliver the invading soldiers and marines...
Last week the ship operators united in a solid bloc, formed the National Federation of American Shipping. Their aims: 1) to make N.F.A.S. the U.S. counterpart of the powerful General Council for British Shipping; and 2) to drive for a sound, long-range merchant-marine program...
...dingy, drafty former stable in Ottawa where sit the seven judges of Canada's Supreme Court in scarlet, ermine-trimmed robes and black, tricornered hats, one chair will be empty this week. Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff, the Dominion's own counterpart of the late great Oliver Wendell Holmes, is retiring...
Walter Lippmann wrote The Good Society in 1937. He realized then that a second World War was inevitable. His book was an attempt to state the principles that might guide Americans after that war. It is the domestic counterpart of Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic. The Good Society was stamped with the feeling that national planning of economics and the emergence of total war are linked and inseparable phenomena. Planning needs the integrating stimulus of an outside enemy and, conversely, the presence of the outside enemy demands planning of production for war purposes. To have...
...Britain's Prime Minister first heard of the historic event was related last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who got it from friends of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Harriman. The anecdote was a pertinent comment on U.S. and British newscasting styles.* Its counterpart could scarcely have happened in the U.S.-especially with George Fredric Putnam† at the microphone...