Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the President swung with his other hand. Reading emphatically from a prepared statement, he blamed Congress for taking "no effective action on the proposals which I have submitted to curb high prices and to protect the average American citizen against the certain prospect of increased living costs." Said the President: "Our people will not be satisfied with the feeble compromises that apparently are being concocted...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State Department...
...Today," he said, "I took my vice consul, and my driver, and came there. I found her in the kitchen . . . Came a few men and took her hand and tried to pull her . . . Three men began to crack the car and damage it. But she still cried, 'Take me home! Take me home!' White Russian bandits, few big men, began to throw some stones. But we got her in the car and we came here...
...other hand, the West would probably not make vital concessions in return for a temporary lifting of the blockade; there would have to be guarantees against clamping down the lid at any time the Kremlin might want to apply pressure. A good deal of down-to-earth horse trading was in order before any conference could...
...management has claimed for a long time that the unions "have us over a barrel," and that the unions prolong negotiations so long that when contracts are finally signed the Met has little time to plan its season properly. But for all its mutterings about the iron hand of labor and the burden of its big payroll, the Met management itself had not done all it might to simplify its staging, by using unit sets instead of cumbersome pieces that take 80 men to get in place...