Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson (who was elected chairman of the meeting) and the delegates faced a confusing wealth of suggestions. Herbert Hoover wanted a temporary U.N. Food Administration to coordinate the world effort after Sept. 1, but "only during the period of food scarcity and agricultural reconstruction from the war." "The world," he said, "must quit charity as a basis for widespread food distribution" after Sept. 1. Fiorello LaGuardia snapped: "It is impossible to take a stop watch and say at a given hour on a given day, 'We are not going to give you any more food...
...quick three-run lead in the first inning on a single, a walk, an out, an error, and two more singles, but the last half of the fifth found them on the short end of a 5 to 3 count. At this point they exploded their first five run effort in which four singles, a walk, and two errors were combined with Bill Barron's booming triple to right center field to blow the game wide open...
...some direct responsibility in the matter." But the U.S.'s official protests had been in vain and Washington was not prepared to take further action. Only the 500 grateful U.S. fliers were still trying. Their testimony would be forwarded to Marshal Tito in a probably futile effort to save Mihailovich's life...
...vengeance he called out 53,000 mine workers in 1941 and wrecked the Mediation Board which Franklin Roosevelt had set up in an effort to keep labor peace while the country armed for war. He split labor apart. Congress was so incensed that it was ready to torpedo national policy just to sink John Lewis...
...Mediation Board. In return for only the smallest of gains he brought down upon his head once more the wrath of Congress. It was a blunder. More than any other man, John Lewis was responsible for the Smith-Connally Act, the boomerang labor law which Congress passed in an effort to curb...