Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your office. . . . RFC's officiousness, ill will bad temper and manners have interested me." When he heard that one of Jones's secretaries had described him as "obnoxious and a nuisance," he wrote in Hickory News: "The reason I am a nuisance . . . is that I remind these men of their carelessness, inefficiency and incompetence." Such colorful invective appealed to anti-New Deal newsmen and columnists who reprinted a lot of it. Some of it was inserted in the Congressional Record by obliging Congressmen...
...have the right idea about fighting out a tune together, then Johnny Wilson's is the place for you (and me). I might add that the clientele has never heard of Harvard, and unless you feel like getting your teeth knocked in, you'll do well not to remind anyone of your presence...
NDAC foundered in a wave of its own contradictory press releases. Despite the Commission, the program had gone astoundingly well. But the NDAC sank in a maelstrom of confusion, with enough flotsam left floating to remind Washington oldsters of the wreck...
...British blockade. This week Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, hopped into a car in Madrid and set out for the Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference, the Frenchman started for a "few days' rest" at his wife's villa, a short drive from the Italo-Spanish rendezvous...
...subject is 'National Defense' and our first question must be,-- What danger threatens us? This question has received so many answers in recent weeks as to remind us of the Tower of Babel. We must try to reduce chaos to order...