Word: ord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rift appeared in Henry Wallace's Progressive Party last week. Rexf ord Tugwell, onetime Roosevelt brain-truster and the one top New Dealer in the Wallace camp, was extremely restless...
...President Berreta, who would take office on March 1, had had a first taste of political brimstone back in 1903-04. As a patrol leader, he skirmished on the side of famed Liberal José Batlle y Ordóñez in Uruguay's great civil war, was captured by the rebels and almost executed. As a Batlle follower in the Colorado Party, Berreta contributed to the hardheaded progressiveness that has characterized Uruguay for the past 40 years...
...wartime Government agency to put it that way. For rubber pro duction, once the No. 1 U.S. war problem, has been solved. U.S. plants now produce at a rate of 836,000 long tons of synthetic rubber a year (more than 25% above the peak prewar import of crude). ORD has no job left; what remains are manpower problems and production troubles in tire manufacturing...
...vote-getting side, Lapham turned out to have virtues: a World War I rec ord; a start in life as clerk of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (he is now board chairman). As an employer member of the National War Labor Board, Lapham won praise from Franklin Roosevelt for his fairmindedness; once he was even praised as a "fair and honest" employer by militant Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
...Colonel, Ord. Dept...