Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumble came from the National Association of Manufacturers' President, Robert, Wason: "OPA is trying to fool you and the American people in the hope that it can frighten you into extending its power for another year." And a less expected voice, that of Minnesota's Republican Senator Joseph Ball cried: "OPA [is] the most important single collection of American fascists...
...Confirmed the nominations of Careermen 1) Joseph Flack as Ambassador to Bolivia, 2) J. Rives Child as Minister to Saudi Arabia, 3) Edwin F. Stanton as Minister to Siam...
Just a year after V-E day, the U.S. Army's reputation in Europe-once as bright and shining as a liberator's sword-had disintegrated into disrepute. Last week General Joseph McNarney, commander of all U.S. troops in the European Theater, finally cracked the whip of discipline on the Army of Occupation in Germany (see below). But the situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe...
...Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Declared white-haired Valetudinarian Evers gratefully: "That leaves me with no more worries...
...Bolshevik coup d'etat which overthrew Russia's democratic Provisional Government (1917), once Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Soviet Commissar of War, organizer and leader of the Red Army against the anti-Communist and Allied forces, and-after his expulsion from the Communist Party by Joseph Stalin-the world's No. 1 political D.P. From the safety of democratic countries (Norway, France, Mexico) which he longed to communize, this ubiquitous, political ghost had haunted Stalin for twelve years with loud and highly articulate shouts of: "Traitor to the Revolution...