Word: overlording
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Seattle's well-tailored Dave Beck, overlord of the West's teamsters, has been acting like a bull in the A.F.L. china shop. He has raided other A.F.L. unions. He has even scared the wits out of roaring Dan Tobin, the teamsters' international president and Beck's boss. Recently Beck demanded that Tobin fire Lester Hunt, editor of the union paper and Tobin's ally. Meekly old Dan complied. This week, writing in the Washington Post, Hunt wigwagged a frantic warning...
...Stimson, every decision could be measured by a single yardstick: did it help knock Germany out of the war? The best news he had heard after two years of war was the message Franklin Roosevelt carried home from Teheran in 1943: "I have thus brought OVERLORD (the Normandy landings plan) back to you safe and sound on the ways for accomplishment...
...into California. In 1946 he opened the swanky $6,000,000 Flamingo Club in Las Vegas. He made the acquaintance of sultry, dark-haired Virginia Hill, 30, who was famed for parties that dazzled even Hollywood. The story was that thrice-married Virginia had a Brooklyn patron, a gang overlord who paid her handsomely to stay out of New York. Bugsy moved his shoes and suits over to Virginia's house...
...abdication was tastefully austere. Frank Hague, for 30 years Mayor of Jersey City and brass-knuckled overlord of Hudson County politics, simply summoned newsmen to City Hall and announced: "I am retiring...
...Anglo-American councils, Ingersoll believes, the British played a particular game. First they tried to "win over each new American officer" by "being charming." If this did not work, they would "manufacture" evidence in order to have the officer removed. When plans for Operation Overlord (the cross-Channel invasion) were drafted in 1943, the British, who had helped to draw them up, tried to stall-for "the British always mix political with military motives." When Operation Overlord was finally forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading...