Word: five-man
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Longsters asked Louisiana to return to "the liberal government of the late Huey P. Long." Jimmie Davis campaigned mostly by plugging his own sad ballads, moving around the state with his five-man hillbilly band, usually talking less than ten minutes before he went into his act. He sang and moved on, and the Bayou citizens remembered the music and something about low taxes...
...vague, unrealistic" 14 Points;* 2) his failure to educate Americans during the war in their postwar responsibilities; 3) his premature forcing of a republican government on Germany; 4) his appeal for a Democratic Congress in October 1918; 5) his appointment of a single, uninfluential Republican to the five-man peace commission; 6) his snubbing of the Senate; 7) his inept handling of publicity; 8) his badly timed stand against the Allied secret treaties; 9) his failure to publicize his League ideas before going to Paris; 10) "his sabotaging the whole idea of a preliminary treaty"; II) his choice of "shell...
...protect fathers, single men in so-called "essential jobs" will be reconsidered as possible draftees. The lists of 3.6 million 4-Fs will be combed again-just in case there are any almost-healthy men who might, after all, make adequate soldiers. A new five-man medical board will be set up to try to lower the Army's physical standards. But whenever the Army needs young & healthy fathers, they will be called...
...Franklin Roosevelt, knowing he could hold the line no longer, hit upon a shrewd new delaying action, to win him at least another two months' time, and then enable him to retreat gracefully. He appointed a five-man committee from WLB to investigate the cost of living and report to him in 60 days. The committee will unquestionably find that costs have gone up more than 15% since January 1941, for the best available Government estimate (Bureau of Labor Statistics) sets the rise at 22½% and labor leaders argue that the true figure is even higher...
...Last fortnight the Soviet Union set up a five-man committee to direct the rehabilitation of the regained soil; ordered the return of 571,500 head of evacuated cattle, horses, sheep. The committee's head is plump Georgi Malenkov, one of Stalin's ablest trouble shooters. Among the members is the professorial-looking Georgian, Lavrenti Beria, chief of NKVD (formerly OGPU...