Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress was in virtual recess. The House met only every third day; the Senate dawdled over the manpower bill. But every Congressman knew that, before spring was over, he would have to face some crucial legislative problems...
...Virtual martial law for the entire home land...
...employer as well as a labor leader: men of Fay's union worked for Fay's construction company. With another A.F. of L. chieftain, balding, scarred James Bove, Vice President of the Hod Carriers' union, Fay held a virtual monopoly on the East's construction workers. He had power, money, attorneys, and the friend ship of politicians like New Jersey's Boss Frank Hague...
Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
King of the Arctic. As superintendent of the Eastern Arctic, David McKeand is virtual potentate of a 700,000-sq. mi. area -one-fifth of Canada's land mass-in which live only an estimated 6,150 people (6,000 of them Eskimos). Bank manager, veteran of the Boer War and World War I, holder of the Military Cross, McKeand became a civil servant...