Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot. Missouri's Republican Senator James P. Kem had long been needling Tom Clark for failure to act. Clark had insisted that a thorough, preliminary probe by the FBI had turned up no grounds for federal action (i.e., no conspiracy to deprive a voter of his rights in a federal election). But before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover testified that his investigation had been specifically restricted by Clark to examining the data uncovered by two Star reporters and four Kansas City election commissioners...
...spot Argentines, the week was notable for an act even more dramatic: the ousting of Police Chief Juan Filomeno Velazco, the toughest man in the Government, the country's top nationalist, and longtime friend of Juan...
Robert Q. Lewis' Little Show (Fri. 8:30p.m.,C.B.S.). A new comedian, a new, longer spot and a not-so-little show...
...strolled past Widener toward Wigglesworth gate, Vag uncovered the one spot of activity in the Yard. Ground was being cleared for the Lamont Library, and the power shovels and dump trucks were at work demolishing the green slope behind Houghton. Strange things were being done to the Dana-Palmer House. Vag watched the big shovels; only five scoops of the jagged-toothed box to fill the puny dump trucks so full that dirt spilled over their sides as they drove out the Widener gate...
Keys' union, which had grown to over 35,000 members, found itself in a precarious spot. The labor bill now pending in Congress denies foremen the protection of the Wagner Act (in effect repealing the Supreme Court decision of March 10 which put them under it). The only other club against management-a strike-had proved a slender reed. Furthermore, the union's greatest source of power, prestige and funds had been its big contract...