Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ham Fish (from Franklin Roosevelt's district) met Trooper Hill 25 years ago on the battlefields of France. They have been thick ever since. One day last autumn a grand jury, investigating the activities of Nazi agents in the U.S., sent its agents to the Washington headquarters of an anti-British organization, the Islands For War Debts Committee, to seize eight bags of franked Congressional mail containing speeches by isolationist members of Congress. They found that George Hill had sent a House truck for the mail before they got there, had whisked it away to Ham Fish...
When the jury actually did find George Hill guilty of perjury, some 20 hours later, his old friend and employer Ham Fish was far away...
...week's end Churchill boarded a train, again with elaborate secrecy, relaxed in zippered grey coveralls, ordered an unrationed dinner of sherry and rare beef, an unrationed breakfast of sliced chicken, ham, bacon & eggs. Next day he showed up in snow-covered Ottawa to address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament...
Dish. Near Blanchester, Ohio, two trucks crashed. One carried ham, the other eggs...
...House, listening with marked impatience to get-right speeches by the G.O.P.'s Leader Joe Martin and Ham Fish, received with a whoop the identical Senate bill, adopted it as a substitute. The vote...