Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower's headquarters. This week the situation was cleared up. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower and a veteran associate and boss of U.S. airmen, took over the job of running the Expeditionary Air Force. To a new job in a minor league-the Southeast Asia theater-went Sir Trafford, to become Allied air commander there...
...Minor Leaguer...
Frenchman's Creek (Paramount) is a minor masterpiece of mush. A color-drenched $4,000,000 cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed...
...this cleavage was by no means absolute. The 1943-44 Court had agreed on most major matters: upholding the NLRB, picketing and price control; sustaining new and higher taxes, protecting civil liberties. The differences were over minor matters, often legalistic, and generally representing differences in legal approach. Broadly speaking, the Black school would usually uphold Congress, as representing the new will of the people; while the Frankfurter school would hold fast to previous law and hoary precedent. Not since May 1936 had the Supreme Court overturned a law of Congress...
...boxing instructor, is trying to make this wartime edition of a Harvard football team come as close as possible to a Harlow-coached squad. Harlow always refuted the idea of a set "system," but many of his basic ideas on offense and defence have been used consistently, with minor variations from year to year...