Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RICHARD HAM...
...deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...
Stung by this and the fire-the-coach cries of alumni like ex-Congressman Ham Fish ('10), sometime All-America tackle, Bill Bingham last week announced his personal ideas about the course Harvard football should take: no more intersectional games, no more games outside the Ivy League. Cracked Chicago's Hutchins, in a quick recall of the Galahad go-round of ten years ago: "I'm glad to notice the cardiac changes in Mr. Bingham...
This latest attempt to cover the subject of John L. Lewis in one volume makes exciting, highly colorful reading. It draws on interviews more than anything else for its facts, and thus gains a high degree of emotional impact in describing the conflicts that have always surrounded the big, ham-handed UMW boss...
Last month, a ham in Memphis got suspicious and reported station W5BNK to the Federal Communications Commission. With its long-range direction finders in Washington, FCC tracked down Moody's transmitters to a loo-mile area. In the process, two other unlicensed operators were caught. Finally, after three weeks, busy FCC field crews pinpointed station W5BNK at the Parchman prison farm...