Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathy with the "Second New Deal." But nobody knew better than Harry Truman that for the four-year term he had earned for himself he would need tough and able men high in public confidence. A vengeful victor might have kicked out Jim Forrestal, who had not raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard that Truman had asked Forrestal to stay and would...
...Purge. Murray's attack was not to be taken as a purge, he said. It was simply in the interests of good trade unionism. He pointed an accusing finger at three unions which he said were falling down on the job of organizing the unorganized. They were Durkin's (office workers), Abram Flaxer's (federal workers), both left wing, and Samuel Wolchok's unruly department-store workers' union. Murray's denunciation was taken as a demand that the three union presidents resign. Said a surprised Wolchok, who has bitterly fought the Communists...
...enforcement units. He wasn't a lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...
Substitutions are expected to be made freely by both sides. For the Crimson, Jim Downey, a probable starter until he sprained his finger in practice Thursday, will alternate with Davis at guard, while Paul Altrocchi and Red Barry will work in at forwards with Hickey and Murphy. Alex Turovetz, Ambrose Redmond, Bill Letson, and Al Switzer also will probably see action before the final whistle...
Speaking in Ljubljana, Tito took a new tack in his fight against the Cominform by appealing to leftists and liberals everywhere. In effect, he put his finger publicly on the unmentioned bogey of all Communist organizers: the rooted revulsion of the average man against abandoning his national patriotism and espousing so-called international classism...