Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Allied net swam the second biggest fish yet caught: smooth, grey Franz von Papen, 6 5-year-old ex-Chancellor, longtime instrument of German dagger diplomacy. Only Rudolf Hess, who had flopped up on the bank of his own accord, was a greater prize...
Organized lycanthropy had become an instrument of the disintegrating Nazi State. Last week a female fanatic broadcast its lupine howl...
...International air policy: although Congress is still up in the air, best indication is that the "chosen instrument" plan (see AIR) would be rejected...
...Having made these points, Juan Trippe then gave the nod to a Senate bill, introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran, which would establish the "chosen instrument," or federally regulated "community company." Such a bill would also mean the end of Pan Am as an operating agency. But Pan Am's equipment and know-how would form the nucleus of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
...that his plan is better for the national interest, and last week he got some help from unexpected sources. Spokesmen for labor and farm groups (the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the International Association of Machinists and the National Grange), appearing before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, upheld the "chosen instrument" policy. They also roundly denounced the Administration for pushing through the major portions of the Chicago air agreement by executive order, rather than by a.treaty, subject to Senate ratification. These portions provide for reciprocal rights to land on and fly over the territories of countries subscribing to the agreement...