Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population is composed of Greeks and Turks, I am informed that the Turks are very jealous over the publicity that the Greeks are getting in Albania, and that they are dying to get into the war so that they can take the spotlight away from the Greeks. Like a ham actor whose greatest thrill in life is to be on the stage, even if he is there just to hold a spear, the Turkish soldier is anxiously waiting for that day to act. If you think that the Greek soldier is a fighter, wait until you see the Turk. PAUL...
...over the group, you find that practically all of them, with the ambiguous exception of John L. Lewis, are people who have fought the social reforms of the past eight years. They are such champions of labor as Henry Ford and Robert Wood, such defenders of civil liberties as Ham Fish and Father Coughlin, such tribunes of the people as Taft and Vandenberg, such bulwarks of our freedom as the Hearst press, all bound together by the awful fear that war will serve as an excuse for the further extension of governmental control over business. These are people...
...staunch as his six-foot, two hundred pound frame are the isolationist convictions of Representative Ham Fish, who stated in an exclusive interview in Washington last Thursday that he would not be trailing behind in the fight for peace despite the drift of public opinion against him and the bush-bush policy of the Eastern press...
...Seymonr of Yale University should be urging our participation in the war when Yale undergraduates will be called upon to do the fighting, whereas Mr. Seymour, who was only 32 when we entered the World War did not, as far as the records disclose, serve in our armed forces," Ham Fish pointed...
...liberal who believes in the fullest freedom of speech, Ham Fish was loath to criticize President Conant for his Interventionist arguments. "I am in accord with his views on measures short of war in aid to Great Britain," he stated, "but am not for any shortcuts to war such as sending our ships into the war zones or conveying British merchant ships...