Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a sweeping grant of authority, WLB could mostly thank its four public members, Chairman William H. Davis, Wayne L. Morse, Frank P. Graham and George W. Taylor. Balance wheel between industry and labor members, they had fought consistently for added power...
Like the owners, workers were at first skeptical, sometimes antagonistic. A common suspicion was that the Church was trying to keep the workers quiet. Typical comment now: "Thank God the Church is doing something at last...
There are no longer two armies; there is the French Army. You have recognized me as commander. For this I thank...
...modest home near the tomb of Sun Yatsen. Of an old man with a flowing beard, sauntering in the garden, they asked admittance. "Sure, come in," said the patriarch. The tour over, one of the newsmen slipped a dollar bill into the old man's pocket. "No thank you, gentlemen," said Lin Sen. "You are quite welcome to visit my modest home...
Unabashed, Cummings punched back: "American citizens resident in this country have called to thank me for breaking the conspiracy of silence about the behavior of certain elements of the American forces. . . . The great majority are a credit to their country. . . . The trouble with the minority is due . . . to the fact that the American soldiers have too much money to spend and too much time to spend it, and to a certain casualness in military supervision...