Word: recommendable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been taking all drawling calls for Mid'n Lee ever since. All the credit for the success must go to conscientious Bob Foley who at last reports didn't want his name mentioned above a whisper in this regard and who by now is in an excellent position to recommend the effectiveness of personal advertisements in this newspaper...
...strictly unofficial news of the meeting was that the committee would recommend and the leagues elect a new commissioner before the 1945 season opens in mid-April. The inner-sanctum dope was that National League President Ford Frick, onetime Colorado College assistant professor of English and longtime sports writer, had the inside track...
...weeks ago, WLB had said that it would not recommend a change in the Little Steel formula. In the end, only Franklin Roosevelt can change it, since the formula is part of a presidential directive. But union labor, having helped re-elect Franklin Roosevelt just three weeks ago, is as yet unwilling to train its oratorical guns on him. At the C.I.O. convention, Phil Murray concentrated on lesser fry, primarily WLBster George Taylor, who devised Little Steel. Said Murray: "We have been aware of your machinations." Mend your ways or "resign your...
...report proposed: 1) a pool of experts to supply technical information to Congressmen; 2) two joint House & Senate Committees, one to investigate the expenditures, the other to investigate the practices, of executive agencies; 3) another committee to study Congress itself, recommend even more improvements...
...overseas to determine whether reinforcements were really inadequate. He found they were, he said. The need, he said, was "urgent." Recruiting would do no good, for a man recruited now would not be fully trained "before next June." "I came to the conclusion that the only [solution] . . . was to recommend that we draw on the [zombies]. . . ." In refusing to accept this recommendation, the Government, Mr. Ralston felt, was climbing out on a limb, counting on a quick end to the war, on reduced casualty rates. Said Mr. Ralston: "If we were to be fair to our fighting men, we could...