Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifetime (1840-1914) did more than any other to shape the modern navies of the world. In his 40 years of active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy men agree that his pen was mightier than a flotilla...
...hunting, Texas' Representative Martin ("Un-American") Dies never put on the stand a real, live, current Communist. This was perhaps intentional. Virginia's Representative Clifton ("Economy") Woodrum last week produced a Communist, and with shrewd design...
...explore the Workers Alliance of America-WPA, unemployed & reliefers' union which claims 400,000 members, of whom 150,000 pay 10? to $1 monthly dues.* Leaders of the Alliance are shrewd, sharp-nosed President David Lasser and shrewd, sharp-nosed Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. Mr. Woodrum put President Lasser on the stand first...
Thus was an indelible Red label pasted on the chief pressure group for bigger WPA appropriations. It immediately put WPAdministrator Francis ("Pink") Harrington on the hottest spot he has been on since he succeeded Harry Hopkins. There was talk in the committee of proposing that no WPA money be paid to any Alliance members unless Colonel Harrington terminates his friendly relations with Alliance leaders. Colonel Harrington coolly retorted that he had noted nothing subversive about the Alliance. "I see no objection," said he, "to having a spokesman for workers discuss wages, hours and working conditions with their superiors...
...Washington last week for his second visit in a fortnight was Senator Taft's neck & neck rival (so far) for their party's main 1940 prize. District Attorney Tom Dewey of New York put in an evening last fortnight getting acquainted with his fellow Michigander and No. 2 rival for the nomination, Senator Vandenberg. Last week he put in some long hours with Joe Martin, Minority Leader of the House. Joe Martin agrees with Minority Leader McNary of the Senate that unless the Republicans feel in 1940 that they can win with anybody, Tom Dewey is the glamor...