Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three members of the NLRB (Chairman Paul M. Herzog, John M. Houston, James J. Reynolds Jr.) answered a summons to the White House. After an hour's talk, they issued a statement: "The debate is over. . . . This board will. . . give the new act the fairest and most efficient administration that lies in its power...
...heard nothing of him until 1941. Then, to an obbligato of fifes and clopping hoofs, the Berlin radio introduced him to its U.S. audience as "Paul Revere." During four years of war, Chandler's cultivated American voice spewed forth the propaganda line of Joseph Goebbels. He was known as America's Lord Haw-Haw. He was captured in 1945, brought home to stand trial...
...hours reading books, and talked as though he would never again enter a ring. But after nearly nine months of retirement, he began to stir again. He told a friend: "I have to prove I wasn't hurt . . . that I'm a man." Manager Paul Doyle lined up a few bouts, and Jimmy breezed through the first five, against second-raters...
...DEFENSE (624 pp.) - Lloyd Paul Stryker-Doubleday...
When a professionally partisan trial lawyer such as Manhattan's Lloyd Paul Stryker turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...