Word: facto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country, for instance, is technically and legally at war with the Axis and de facto an ally of the U.S.; nevertheless, the U.S. Army does not accept me in spite of my desire and training because I am a Nicaraguan citizen...
America's bristling cactus from Texas, Martin Dies, is about to exact his pound of flesh for the fifth time from Congress. Four times before he's stymied any opposition to his special investigating committee, charging that anyone opposing it was so facto un-American. Would-be opposers were afraid of consequences back home where local papers would scream they had voted against the "great un-American Activities Committee." Cagey Dies knew his game well. He yelled he was saving America from catastrophy, let the anti-Red press give him free publicity in every corner of the country, and then...
Army & Navy: De facto head of the Army & Navy Munitions Board (his de jure commission still to be signed) is Wall Street's Ferdinand Eberstadt, first civilian since War I to head the services' top procurement-coordinating body. Longtime friend and former partner of Navy Under Secretary Jim Forrestal, Ferd Eberstadt was also urged to his new job by his friend War Under Secretary Bob Patterson, after he did an undercover study and report on reorganization of Army-Navy supply staffs last fall. Ferd Eberstadt, 51, earned his Wall Street medals when he recovered from a pre-crash...
...beer chug-a-lugged tonight is not ipso facto the beginning of the road to fame, but for successful candidates it may eventually lead to topflight undergraduate position, and is in any case the first of a succession of bears and other good things to be enjoyed in the Plympton Street emporium...
...Reason: Peter Quennell probably knows more about Byron and the romantic movement than any man alive, tells what he knows in a cadenced Bloomsbury prose that is only now & again too self-consciously elegant. As no one appreciates better than sly Author Quennell, a biography of Byron is ipso facto a novel by Proust...