Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real anger had gone out of the debate over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
Ottawa's squatting veterans got rough. Led by fiery half-pint Franklyn Edward Hanratty, president of the Veterans' Housing League, 500 vets and spectators massed in Victoria Park last week, their furniture piled in 20 trucks. In the quiet of the supper hour, they tootled off in search of housing. They made a feint at the well-protected R.C.A.F barracks downtown, then headed for the Navy's wartime barracks - H.M.C.S. Carleton - on Ottawa's outskirts near Dow's Lake...
Died. Charles Kurtsinger, 39, pint-sized "Flying Dutchman" who rode two Kentucky Derby winners (Twenty Grand, 1931; War Admiral, 1937); of pneumonia; in Louisville...
...Behind the strike was a labor politicians' feud. Pontiac's Mayor Arthur J. Law is a onetime president of the U.A.W.'s Fisher Body Local 596 and a member of the U.A.W.'s Reuther wing. In the last city election he beat one Sidney Christmas, pint-sized vice-president of the Pontiac Union Council and an extreme left-winger. Egged on by Christmas, all 16 unions in the council threatened last week to call a sympathy strike Oct. 2 if the city workers' demands...
...invitingly vacant. This was just what 150 war vets, who had formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk eleven vets, their wives and 18 children rumbled out to Kildare Barracks in trucks. They unloaded beds, stoves, washing...