Word: flim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monsters & Flim-Flams. The fight went on. In a stuffy conference room, John Taber fought a rear-guard action against ECA. Time & again the conference broke up in despair. But Senate leaders were determined. By Saturday evening, Taber's House support had fallen away. Abruptly, Taber gave in. The ECA got $4 billion (only $245 million short of Administration requests), to spend in twelve months, if necessary...
...cost housing units. The Senate balked at his own housing bill which he rammed through the House under a gag rule. It extended tax privileges to private builders, guaranteed their profits and mortgages. Cried New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "A monstrosity . . . The veterans have been flim-flammed...
...made a promise: to "attempt to cut through the charges and countercharges that have surrounded the election campaign, and present ... a clear picture of what's going on." The reporter who got the assignment had left the U.S. only the day before. The correspondent: PM's flim-flamboyant ex-editor Ralph Ingersoll, whose politics are left of leftish...
...that a propaganda bureau was being prepared, and that short-wave broadcasters would be required to take dictation, or else. Enough young men around Washington talked like fools to give point to this suspicion. Already stirred up (for other reasons) against FCC, the industry felt that any plan to flim-flam its short-wave audience -built up by years of honest news reporting-should be fought at a hat's drop...