Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
Franklin Roosevelt, six years ago the object of grammarians' tuts for his liking for "like" in the wrong places, escaped another tutting by a blue pencil's stroke. Conning ahead of time the text of a minor Roosevelt speech, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock encountered "like in many cases," quickly phoned a Presidential aide. The President, reached in time, made...
...match was the climax of the entertainment presented to the V-12 Unit in its first smoker. Other minor bouts were on the card earlier in the program matching V-12ers against each other in both boxing and wrestling, while a novel note was introduced in the bout between a wrestler and a boxer...
...strictly criminal, gun-toting aspects of 'the new "creeping Prohibition" are minor phases of the drought. The main area is in violations of OPA regulations...
...about the time of the Quebec conference last August and proved to be the turning point in U.S.-Russian relations. The seven-point declaration was said to have been roughed out on the eve of the Quebec talks, accepted by Winston Churchill and later approved by Moscow with four minor changes. The U.S. State Department meanwhile was informed of preparatory talks in London between Anthony Eden and Ambassador Ivan Maisky. As a result, the U.S. delegation at Moscow knew the basic Russian view in advance...