Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally agreed that there should be a separate body set up to administer the European Recovery Program. Three different groups had plans for such a body: the State Department, the Herter Committee, the Harriman Committee. On basic principles, they saw eye to eye. The boss should be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The administering body should have wide and flexible authority to procure goods and facilities, administer and allocate funds. It should work in close cooperation with the State Department. It should make frequent and complete reports to Congress. Appropriations should be. on an annual basis...
...long run and the long view, said Dewey, reconstruction was a straight business proposition and should not be left in the hands of "social planners who do not know a loom from a corn-husker." Said he, with an eye on his business-minded audience: "It is time we got business men into a business...
With 1948 firmly in mind, leaders of both major parties cocked a hopeful eye toward last week's elections. The Democrats, still smarting from their 1946 walloping, were quick to see the beginning of a Democratic boom in the election of Earle C. Clements as governor of Kentucky. The Republicans counter-shouted that throughout the nation they had held the line and consolidated last year's gains. The plain facts of local politics deflated the rodomontades of both sides...
Until this spring, all they had on Moe was a jaundiced eye and a 1942 federal rap for perjury. He was fined $2,000 for denying the purchase of some hot ice from a New York source. Then he tried to do business with Mrs. Sayde Genis...
...diary (kept from July 1942 to Dec. 5, 1945), but a separate book about the ETO campaigns which draws on his diary and what are referred to as "open" letters from the General to Mrs. Patton. An introductory section of letters from North Africa and Sicily will be an eye-opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab...