Word: titular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...
...Decision. The Communists adroitly proposed veteran Socialist Félix Gouin, 61, Assembly president and an amiable but not strong personality, as President. Presumably they did not care for the titular Socialist leader, aging Leon Blum, who is regarded as less than susceptible to Communist overtures. The Socialists did not bite...
Help from Republicans? As the top-ranking Republican members, Franklin Roosevelt did not pick, as he might have, the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee (Hiram Johnson), nor the titular leader of the party (Governor Dewey). He chose Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Commander Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, flag secretary to famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...
...case something should happen to him, and Rudolf Hess as the next leader if something happened to Göring. But Hess dropped first into insanity, then into Scotland, now broods his life away as a British captive. Göring has receded into obscurity, although he is still titular chief of the Luftwaffe. Many Gauleiter who used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed his contempt for Göring by impressing large clumps of air-force personnel into the SS and Volksgrenadiere. Göring is said...
...Sent Christmas greetings to the armed forces, to wounded service men, and to the Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls and other organizations of which he is titular head. He personally presented 258 White House employes with a Christmas card, and a scroll bearing his D-day prayer in red, blue, black and gold letters...