Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the limbs on Henry Ford's tree have been lopped off-one of the last ones by the Supreme Court. An NLRB ruling that Mr. Ford had violated the Wagner Act was upheld by the Circuit Court. The Supreme Court declined to review the case when Ford appealed. About the only limb left was delay. Toward that limb Mr. Ford was edging. Said his hardfisted, right-hand man, Harry Bennett: "If the NLRB orders an election, of course we will hold one, because Mr. Ford will observe the law. C. I. O. will win it, of course...
...book, Winged Warfare (Harper & Brothers; $3), West Pointer Arnold and his coauthor, Colonel Ira C. Eaker, were careful not to get out on the limb Billy Mitchell was sawed off on. In a 260-page discussion of the use of air power, closest Arnold-Eaker got to the limb were a few paragraphs carrying the unmistakable implication that a separate air force was inevitable...
...great many things had happened to them in the last three months. When they got off the train at Quantico, their only common denominator had been that they were not more than 24 years old nor less than 20, graduates of approved colleges and universities, sound of wind and limb-and civilians. By last week they were no longer 233 civilians: they were the Corps's first candidates for the 1,200 new officers it needs...
There is not one decent, sensible story in Presenting Moonshine. Author John Collier is crazy as a hoot owl. But perched on the gnarled limb of satire, he blinks down with dry wisdom at a world much crazier than he. Effortlessly he glides into madness...
Much like the unhappy sportswriter who predicted that Bob Pastor would uncrown Joseph Louis '04 of Detroit, I am going to place myself squarely on the end of a limb. In short, your favorite columnist's room-mate is going on record here with respect to the unfortunate controversy which so often recurs concerning the relative values of the contributions of jazz and "classical" to music...