Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public member. Snapped the New York Times: "The board now exists without real powers or prestige ... [its] continued wraithlike existence . . . merely serves to confuse thinking and to clutter up the road . . . [Congress] should end the legal life of the War Labor Board now by an immediate repeal of the Smith-Connally 'Anti-Strike...
...have something more to gripe about than the White House colorlessness. They are exceedingly jealous of any signs of presidential favoritism-and there have been some. On the President's trip to Independence, fortnight ago, Harry Truman invited A.P.'s Tony Vaccaro and U.P.'s Merriman Smith to join in a poker game. The I.N.S. reporter (a substitute) was left out, presumably because the President did not know him very well. Also left out were specials like the New York Herald Tribune's Washington chief, Bert Andrews, the Chicago Sun's Tom Reynolds. They immediately...
...Smith, who comes from a little town outside of Syracuse and went to Rensalear Polytechnic Institute before the Navy sent him to Columbia, has this to say about...
...opposite corner we have Stanley Smith and Harry Coleman, who were five-weeks-old Spec candidates when KCAC rocketed them to the top. They say there's another side to the story...
...Emergency Council says the issue is settled, but even Smith anticipates new battles. "The old board will need plenty of money, though, to publish a Spec privately," says Smith; "Mr. Hubbard (Benjamin Hubbard, head of KCAC) will okay our printing bills and he won't okay anyone else...