Word: lessers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eden took their military advisers, respectively Major General John R. Deane and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn, if obvious, conclusion that matters of military consequence stood high on the agenda. After some delay the Russians disclosed that Molotov was being advised by no lesser personages than Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and onetime Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff...
...would be merged. ... If a four-power agreement . . . [were] to be all that this country envisaged . . . such an accord would necessarily tend to stimulate the assumption by the four powers of the rights and prerogatives of world dictators. It would be suspect in the minds of all of the lesser powers as an instrument in derogation of their own sovereignty...
...churches, but enough damage had been done by Germans and by Allied bombs to make Romans shudder. Persistent report had the Nazis systematically looting the capital's art treasures. Northbound trains were said to be bearing plunder to the castles and villas where Göring, Himmler and lesser German collectors had stored the loot of Warsaw, Paris and Kiev...
Brilliant Catfight. The particular symposium in The Republic that is devoted to foreign affairs turns out to be a brilliant and bitter catfight. As a tiger among lesser cats, Beard claws all his enemies in this particular chapter to death. Beard's opponents have fictitious names, but it is easy to identify them with the beliefs of Dr. James Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example...
Self-Interest v. Public Interest. Al though several lesser points were decided (one in A.P.'s favor, two against), the heart of the Government's suit involved A.P.'s membership bylaws. Until last year an applicant for A.P. membership could be blackballed solely by the veto of a member paper in the city in which the applicant operated; only an 80% vote of all A.P. members could override that veto...