Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea to General Hodges to spare the historic shrine, if at all possible, was transmitted down ... to HQ 4th Infantry Division, where ... a volunteer patrol was sent ... to the Nazi commander . . . and succeeded in arranging the German evacuation of the city, which fell the next day . . . without a shot being fired...
...Administration, heedful of its labor support in the election, wanted to bar the hated word "injunction" from any labor act. Attorney General Tom Clark had said reassuringly that the President had "inherent" powers to enjoin strikers in a national crisis; it was not necessary to spell out his powers...
...Taft bill would also require management as well as union bosses to sign non-Communist affidavits ; lift Taf t-Hartley's ban on workers voting in a plant election while they were on strike; take away the independent, sometimes overweening authority of the NLRB's general counsel...
...luxurious mansion on Foxhall Road, Mrs. Cafritz issued invitations to a mint julep and steak party this week at the Cafritz estate. The guest list, if all showed up, was almost as impressive as a Mesta fiesta. Among those invited: Vice President Barkley, the John Snyders, the Clark Cliffords, Generals Omar Bradley and Hoyt Vandenberg, a hatful of ambassadors and Cabinet members, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Tokyo appealed to the Supreme Court last year, the court decided it had no power to upset the judgment of the international tribunal which tried them. Now Douglas wanted to know: if the Supreme Court can't scrutinize the tribunals' judgments, who can? "If an American general holds a prisoner, our process can reach him wherever he is," he wrote. "To that extent, at least, the Constitution follows the flag. It is no defense for him to say he acts for the Allied powers." To cope with the dilemma, Douglas evolved a novel formula: the Japanese now serving...