Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wholly shocked to learn that any person could even suggest that the Government should be run by such men as Senator Taft, Ham Fish, Colonel McCormick, Senator Wheeler and John L. Lewis, not to mention Governor Bricker, among the greatest dispersers of nonsense in the Midwest...
...cover for May 29, one William B. Sommerville of Lawrence, Kans. saw something that rang faint bells in his memory. What he saw was a lordly, rotund lady riveter named Rosie (see cut), ankles crossed, overalled knees relaxed, looking royally satisfied with herself and her bulging cheekful of ham sandwich. Mr. Sommerville took Rosie the Riveter to the public library. Memory's bells became a carillon when he turned up a reproduction of Michelangelo's Isaiah (see cut). Mr. Sommerville sent his find to the Kansas City Star, which made good-humored...
Your editorial "Ham and Cheese" is of interest to those who have studied the Hull treaties. Without delving into either the material benefits or the diplomatic importance of the so-called reciprocal trade agreements program, which possibly have not led to a more peaceful world, would it not be pertinent to examine the possible accomplishments in fields more analogous to post-war commitments...
...they had hated the Jap before, no word was strong enough for their feeling now. From the staid New York Times to the most violent yellow journal, the editors laid on their most desperate adjectives, and none was stronger than the people's feeling. Some people, notably Congressman Ham Fish, even demanded that the U.S. take its turn at cold-blooded killing by reprisals against Japanese prisoners. (Such proposals were as stupid as they were contemptible: the U.S. has captured few Japanese; the Jap has some 17,000 U.S. troops. 11,000 Philippine Scouts, and about...
...midst of a House debate last week, on a resolution asking an investigation of an OPA consumer-goods labeling program, up rose New York's Republican Ham Fish...