Word: ramrodded
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...Democrat (and American Labor Party-endorsed) Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell, 65, was launched by the Independent Citizens' Committee. Bluff, ramrod-stiff General Haskell is a veteran of the Philippines (1902) and St. Mihiel (1918). Said he: ". . . Presidentially ambitious Tom Dewey wants his own hand-picked successor...
...country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering ex-Confederate ramrod in uniform; his nervous, effeminate son; a bully who suspects the two strangers; a slobbering sadist caressing a rope; and two men who are desperately in opposition to the expedition-a colored handy man and a gentle elderly storekeeper...
...Break a Silence. Last fall Franklin Roosevelt sent Pat Hurley as his observer to Russia. Grey, ramrod-backed General Hurley made a hit with Stalin, who let him go to the Stalingrad front-the first foreigner so trusted. In a bomber with two other American officers, General Pat was flown over the front where the Russians were completing one of the most complicated encircling operations in military history. Pat & friends saw it all in detail. Later the Hurley party toured the front in a jeep, lived at field headquarters and had the best of Russian hospitality and cooperation. In return...
...Navy. An ardent Dry, he prohibited liquor on board Navy ships. He outraged officers by shaking hands with seamen. He tried to make sailors wear pajamas. In his black string tie and his flat-brimmed, North Carolina planter's hat, he was a walking affront to the ramrod dignity of the admirals...
...soldier in uniform. Model 1941, tends to be casual to the point of slouchiness, conspicuously lacks the ramrod posture of the German soldier or the U.S. Marine. But the equipment the U.S. soldier slouches in is, according to the U.S. Army, the best in the world. To outfit and maintain a U.S. soldier, from toilet kit (63?) to overcoat ($12.54), and buy his organizational equipment, from shovels (68?) to hymnals for the chapels ($33.75 a set), costs $262.35 a year. Complete with Garand ($96), the Army rifleman's equipment (including maintenance but not ammunition) sets the U.S. Treasury back...