Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark-skinned Prince Abdul Illah, regent of friendly Iraq, he presented the medal of the Legion of Merit...
...Annie Reid Knox he read a citation of the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox's war record, vicariously presented him with a posthumous Medal for Merit...
...unruly red hair looks like a badly made fright wig, moved up into the Admiralty. Tall, sensitive, sensible Robert Cruikshank, 47, head of the American Division, moved to Fleet Street as political editor of the News Chronicle. Britain, which knows better than the U.S. that a necessary evil can merit praise, gave them a "well done...
Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's public-relations director, won the Army's Legion of Merit-but not for balling up the V-E day announcement. Said General Eisenhower: the "sound judgment constantly demonstrated by this officer reflected great credit upon the U.S. Army...
...failed. Year after year TVA shunned politics, awarded jobs on a merit basis. Shaking with rage, Kenneth McKellar time & again rose in the Senate to denounce quiet, smooth-faced TVA Chairman David Eli Lilienthal, 45. Time & again, in the hope of clubbing TVA into submission, he sought to bring its day-by-day finances under the control of Congress. Frustrated, he bided his time and nursed his grudge. This spring many a Washington politico believed that the 76-year-old spoilsman had TVA squarely in his sights at last. His enemy, David Lilienthal, faced reappointment for a nine-year term...