Word: foe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which would be decisive." The U.S., not a participant in the conference, remained well in the background. However, the delegates were learning what the U.S. meant by European selfhelp. Ramadier gave a luncheon for U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, who has become the world's foremost foe of trade barriers. After that, the delegates began to talk more about removal of European trade barriers...
Several of the more unattractive aspects of journalistic and political activities were blended into one incident when the New York Sun published it recent scare story about the theft of certain A-bomb files. Statements issued late by Senators Hickenlooper and McMahon indicate that the Sun, foe one reason or another, had printed erroneous facts leading to an equally erroneous conclusion. Whereas the Sun reported that secret data was removed from files at Oak Ridge after they had been entrusted to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission, the truth seems to be that the papers were lifted from Los Alamos...
Senator McKellar, unable to forgive Lilienthal for not opening the payroll of TVA to McKellar patronage, is the god-father of one of five pending bills designed to do away with the Atomic Energy Commission. Another implacable foe of the Commission is J. Parnell Thomas who operates by the subtler procedure of periodically releasing stories relating how the Patent Office has given Russia all our atomic know-how, or that an Oak Ridge employee has a wife who works for the Soviet Embassy...
Long time the ranksome foe he sought...
Died. The Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, 67, Irish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington, outspoken foe of movies, Nazis and Communists (he caused a 1941 press furor when he said: "We of the U.S. are fighting side by side with Stalin, the greatest murderer of men the world has ever known"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...