Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Talked with John Winant, generally considered his selection as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. (From London came advance reports that King George VI and the British Government had approved Mr. Winant; from Washington came flat declarations that Tobaccoman S. Clay Williams would accompany him as the U. S. Minister to Britain...
...committee also filed two minority reports : one proposing a flat code of fair administrative practice and placing greater stress on judicial review; the other recommending a wholly independent board (like the Board of Tax Appeals) with un restricted power to review all agency rulings...
...arrived by plane in England one day this week, the country was enjoying comparative quiet. A transport had shuttled him from Lisbon to a western England airport. As the plane came down, Mr. Willkie was impatiently striding up & down the aisle; the bump of the landing threw Mr. Willkie flat. Back on his feet and brushed off, he burst out of the cabin door. "I never felt better in my life," he exclaimed. To reporters who knew who he was but wanted to know what he was, he said, "I am just Wendell Willkie," and hopped off to London...
...President Philip Murray had ready at last a big labor effort: a "Survey of the Steel Industry." To the question whether steel's present capacity is adequate to defense needs, Mr. Murray humbly answered: "We do not know." But he did come out with a number of flat assertions certain to cause discussion. Chief of them: that the industry's output is 5,920,195 net tons short of real capacity. Other Murray claims...
King Selfridge was not present to hear these recriminations (largely female). Since he resigned the chairmanship he has lived quietly in a Park Lane flat. He works eight hours a day on his private affairs, continues to write a biography of the 15th-century Florentine Merchant-Trader Cosimo de' Medici. The huge glass window of his former office on Oxford Street, cut with autographs of the great and near-great, has been shattered by a bomb...