Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of U.S.O. tours in Alaska, the Pacific, the Caribbean, he was now back from Africa and Sicily. He too plumped for newer films for the troops, reported: "They don't want Shakespeare. They're kids, they're babies-they want light stuff, but no legitimate ham...
...Accused New York's loudmouthed Congressman Ham Fish of permitting "subversive" use of his Congressional frank by convicted Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck and others. When the Chicago Tribune-minded Illinois delegation sought to eliminate Ham's name from the resolution, cries came from the floor: "No," "Pin it on him," "Call him by name." Replied Legionnaire Ham Fish: "Manufactured lies...
...living room, near the pink-tiled fireplace, Sam has a flat-topped, eight-legged desk, flanked by pictures of Robert E. Lee and Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and dinners of fried chicken or steak, great slices of cold tomatoes and sliced Bermuda onions, cornbread and homemade jelly, and homemade ice cream cranked out in an old-fashioned freezer by Bobby, the colored cook. The steaks are from Rayburn cattle, straight from the frozen-food locker in Bonham...
...importance of the West and resolved, so to speak, that it would itself "go West and grow up with the country." So for years we have been calling national attention to all kinds of news unfolding in the West-from Upton Sinclair and Harry Bridges to Henry Kaiser, from Ham-and-Eggs and Hetch-Hetchy to Bonneville Dam. And percentagewise we now have more readers on the Coast than any other front-rank magazine...
Although Direct Credits seems to have largely gone the way of Ham & Eggs and other Utopias, a lot of people have had lessons in Lawson's economics. Fundamentals: abolish the gold standard, interest, "alien" financiers, and give everybody state credit secured by hope. Money would "have no value at all ... merely act as a measure . . . the quantity of it issued will not affect its purchasing power...