Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the principal military adviser to the President and the Defense Secretary, but giving him no vote on the JCS. The bill also limits the power of the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries to appeal over the Defense Secretary's head to the President. The House has not yet acted, and seemed to be in no hurry. ¶Approved unanimously a bill permitting the annual admission of 100 aliens who have jeopardized their lives in espionage activity for the U.S. It also permits the Central Intelligence Agency to spend money for espionage without...
...article titled "I Was King Of The Safecrackers," the literary yegg gives a gripping account of how he, at the head of the most picturesque mob this side of Sherwood Forest, "cracked the safe at Harvard University...
Fainsod, who speaks fluent Russian, is the head of the political research at the Research Center. Friedrich has been a research assistant there since February...
Agreement on payment of the three-day bill was reached by Finney and Reginald T. Fitz '08, head of the Committee on Commencement Expenses, after the Band had last week refused to appear at any graduation events if the University would not pay all its expenses...
...Santa Rosa, Calif., Mrs. Irene Wells explained to authorities why she had allowed her bigamous husband to bring his 15-year-old "bride" into their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband over he head: "I was frying eggs and all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I hit my husband with the skillet . . ." In Hollywood, Beverly Mitchell got a divorce after she charged that her husband left her alone with the company and went off to his room to play with...