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...bill to take away OPA's authority to fix oil prices, and hand it over to Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes. Further, amendments have already been drawn up to remove OPA's power over coal and food prices. If the bill and amendments pass, OPA will be doornail-dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Report from the Front | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

From the university's fantastic financial records, which only doornail-dead Dr. Bailey could have explained, auditors deduced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scandal in Vermont | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Economy, that hateful, brown-tasting word, was doornail dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Lost Art of Economy | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...State where Vandenberg is best known, outside Michigan, Mr. Dewey suddenly became better known. On Wisconsin farms he ran like a prairie fire; in Wisconsin cities he ran like a rumor. Of a possible 24 delegates, he got 24. Mr. Vandenberg's candidacy was dead as a doornail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dewey Gets Going | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...primary (no opposition). Next step: to roll the bandwagon through the Wisconsin primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: New Era | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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