Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denounced Congressman Ham Fish for antiSemitism. Fish, campaigning for reelection in New York's agth District, had said that Jews favor the New Deal. Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free...
...latest book, a biography of Hillman's great needle trades rival, Dave Dubinsky, Stolberg calls Hillman "a typical ham Machiavelli who almost always outsmarts himself...
Press Wireless officials were astonished by their brilliant coup. When sandy, slender Albert McGeagh landed in France with seven men and a mobile transmitter, he had no idea of bridging the Atlantic. His power was only 400 watts-little stronger than many a radio ham's shortwave outfit. He hoped merely to be first to get in touch with London, for relay to New York. But after a few tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF...
...night of Dday, off the coast of France, busily engaged landing craft saw a vessel resembling a Hoboken ferry puffing by, read the letters LCK (Landing Craft, Kitchen) on its sides. Blinkers promptly opened up, signaling for "Double malted and ham-on-rye, forget the mustard...
...Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd birthday (June 28) Tooey will get a Smithfield ham...