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...Budget Bureau, brooding aloud over the $134,000,000, received a peremptory Army rebuff: "The Canol project must be completed as rapidly as possible and without further interference or delay...
Jerry Mann's quarterback strategy will be all out for Franklin Roosevelt, Administration and all. Texas Democrats in 1944 thus may have a clear-cut chance to endorse or rebuff the national Administration...
Epilogue. The Italian press reported that the carabinieri, pressing the Badoglio dictatorship's drive against blackshirts, had now arrested the sisters Petacci. Commented the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung: the deliberate blackening of Benito Mussolini's grey reputation is a rebuff to the Nazis, who still pretend that the ex-Duce is a great man; it is also a shift in political attitude that "may point to coming events...
...weeks ago, Gene Cox began his hearings, hoping for headlines. He set out on a fact-fishing expedition, looking for proof of his charges. He met rebuke and rebuff. Budget Director Harold Smith refused to testify. Navy Secretary Frank Knox, subpoenaed, just skipped the hearing. Franklin Roosevelt ordered that no one talk about a dispute between the Army and FCC. Even FCC's ever loyal opposition, the radio industry, called Gene's charges nonsense. With no facts to go on, Gene's circus folded its tents, went home...
...first time since 1889 that a President had suffered a rebuff on a diplomatic nomination: on that occasion it was a cynical Senate which turned down an able man.* For Ed Flynn it meant the loss of three jobs in three weeks-the national chairmanship, committeeman from New York, boss of The Bronx...