Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President asked Congress to move the Immigration and Naturalization Service from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice as a measure of alien control. Said Attorney General Jackson, as the FBI added 100 agents and public opinion dumped the fifth-column problem in his lap: "Citizens may be helpful to the Government. They may aid by reporting to the FBI acts, threats, or evidences of sabotage, espionage." To a citizenry determined to act if the Government did not, he added, "The greatest help to the Government that citizens can render is to keep cool and not become frightened...
...full lap ahead of competitors, Fruehauf sales last year were $14,878,641, up 126% over 1938. Net was a record $1,829,041. Last week, with their 25-acre Detroit plant newly expanded, Fruehauf officials waited patiently for the concrete floors of a big new Los Angeles plant to harden. With first-quarter sales an estimated 50% ahead of last year, they needed the extra production facilities...
Committee dissenters, ineffectual New Dealers Healey and Murdock, called the amendments "emasculatory." But emasculation was a long way off, for the case of NLRB was now dumped into the ample lap of handsome Mary Teresa Norton, who comes from Jersey City and Boss Frank Hague, and who looks 20 years less than her age (65). Chairwoman of the 21-man House Labor Committee, buxom Mrs. Norton snapped that it would have been "much more honest" of the Smith committee to propose outright repeal of the Wagner Act. Fearing that Mrs. Norton, in motherly fashion, would simply sit on the bill...
Then one of Britain's most vexsome Empire problems-Palestine-was dumped in his lap. During one of the worst terroristic periods he flew out to the Holy Land, interviewed both Arabs and Jews. Jews and Arabs were invited to a round-table conference in London to compose their differences. Nothing came...
College officers, frightened by visions of Ann the Oomphy posing for photographers on John Harvard's lap, object to the proposed premiere here on the grounds that it would expose Harvard to a blast of undignified publicity and are applying pressure from all sides to head Warner Brothers...