Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thumb Phillips ("all brains and no body") was 64 inches short-smaller even than the mighty little Nelson. At 53 he was one of the youngest Admirals in the British Navy, one of the youngest commanders in chief. The way he died proved he had Lord Nelson's eagerness for action, without Nelson's mysterious acuteness as to what enemy forces he might encounter...
...John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish Socialist who believes that Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once, when Stalin arrested some Indian Communists as Trotskyists, lambasted Communist Gallacher as "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he does not dare to stand up and defend British subjects...
...while their left hands have been putting the well-known thumb on labor, with their right hands the leaders of industry have adroitly been harvesting the increased profits of the defense boom while continuing to avoid major taxes. More flagrant even than that, as a minor speaker at the congress of the National Association of Manufactures threw in their faces the other day, the highly paid executives have been raising their own salaries. Admitting that his figures of 18 per cent salary boosts were "scandalous", the speaker, a Tennessee congressman, proceeded to leave the N. A. M. meeting...
...analyzing an argument you feel to be specious, always look for the hidden major premise." Never, since he began popularizing it in his classes at Yale 70 years ago, has William Graham Sumner's pregnant rule of thumb been more essential to straight national thinking than at the present moment...
...vulnerable eastern hump of Brazil, which sticks out sore-thumb-like on all maps of U.S. grand strategy, is for one U.S. corporation already an active fighting front. The corporation: Pan American Airways. On the hump, Pan Am lines parallel Axis airlines; and there, at U.S. Government behest, Pan Am last week was busy improving or building twelve air bases, ringing the hump...