Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agency designed to deal with labor disputes, has thrown up its hands and passed the buck, this time to the President. The buck could go no further. The President has acted, fighting back with a vague threat of force. How much of the blame can be thrown on political ham Lewis and how much on the mine operators and the government...
...tied the knot with his own ham-sized hands was North Carolina's stubborn old Congressman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee. He and his committee stalwarts, their own bill repudiated, now refused to work out a compromise plan...
...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...
John Lewis, last of the great ham tragedians of politics, strode to the witness stand with long, measured steps: one-two-three-four. He bowed twice, sat down, sighed. Two tiny spring flowers, one white, one lavender, peeped from the lapel of his flowing black coat. His broad jowls were momentarily at rest, his eyebrows arched like innocent cupid's bows. Under subpoena by the Truman Committee, John Lewis had appeared gladly. There he sat, as guileless and patient as a volcano. He was ready to explain his threat of a coal strike...
...plan would reduce the U.S. almost to the low British level of meat consumption. The British are allowed 16 oz. of meat and 4 oz. of bacon and ham, plus 4 oz. of cheese a week. But a report by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius punctured the theory that the U.S. was short of meat on Britain's account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments...