Word: framed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frame. Then Hoffman sat down to drive his points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot...
Most of the defendants were old hands at fighting Government charges and they had their countercharges ready. The indictments, they shouted, were "a monstrous frame-up ... an American version of the Reichstag fire ... a domestic counterpart of the criminal bipartisan attempts to turn the war in Berlin from cold to hot." They were timed, they said, to embarrass Henry Wallace's convention in Philadelphia (see Third Parties...
...about fire hazards, wondered the frustrated inspector? Did the Russians know that fire laws prohibited occupancy of a frame house by more than 15 people? "Our people," said the comrade, as faces peered from virtually every window of the huge, three-story mansion, "do not smoke in bed. We will have no fires...
Last May, The Doc invited Walter Francis Sheehan, a Catholic, dean of freshmen and athletic director at Williams College, to tell his boys what college would be like. The Doc was greatly impressed by Sheehan's tall, athletic frame (he was a college basketball star), his straightforward manner, and his common sense. The Doc suggested Sheehan to his trustees as his successor...
Culture's Bastion. "Fred" Allen, 58 years old this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only...