Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them chomping gum. Waggling his eyebrows, in sonorous, sneering, ironic tones he intoned his letter: "Sir, "Your letter at hand. . . ." Denying that the defense program would be impaired, reasserting the loyalty of his miners, Lewis said that if the President were going to restrain him, "then, sir, I submit that you should use the same power to restrain my adversary in this issue, who is an agent of capital. My adversary is a rich man named Morgan, who lives in New York." It was J. P. Morgan, declared Lewis, member of the Board of U.S. Steel, who determined the policy...
Brigadier General Wood wrote: "Dear Mr. President, The America First Committee ... asks that you [submit] to Congress a resolution for the declaration of a state of war between the United States and the German Reich...
...Remarkable Cohen. ". . . We submit that the United States Government should not recognize the present German Government . . . until the present German Government demonstrates that it will honor its human obligations." So read a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times, March 27, 1933. It was signed "Frank Cohen and Family, All Native Americans...
This was reassuring talk. Allocation, Washington's new magic word, was about to replace priorities in earnest (TIME. Oct. 6). Theoretically, this meant that civilian industries starving for lack of scarce materials could expect a fairer shake, that Army and Navy must also submit to allocation, instead of hogging the head of the queue. Said Nelson Deputy Albert J. Browning last week, "Some proportion of critical materials [must be] set aside for general civilian...
...considered impossible to dislodge the enormous timbers: trees whose roots had dug deep into the stream bottom . . . were packed down with tons of silt. ..." Shreve disagreed. He had invented a "heavy-timbered, twin-hulled snag boat" to do the job. He wrote the War Department, offering to submit a model. The War Department "did not trouble to reply...