Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Communist teachers in New York City, of whom there are allegedly hundreds, were virtual outcasts from their profession. The American Federation of Teachers (A.F.of L. trade union) stripped them of their union cards, and school officials were rapidly stripping them of their jobs...
Four days after President James Reeves announced the deal, Chairman Marion Barton Skaggs of Safeway resigned in San Francisco. This was no comment by Safeway's founder on the Manhattan adventure, for Skaggs has been in virtual retirement since he sold controlling interest in 1931 to Wall Street's Charlie Merrill (Merrill Lynch, E. A. Pierce & Cassatt...
...less attention from the Army than cooks. Few cantonments had chapels, and chaplains got neither religious equipment nor other assistance. Officers could assign the chaplains to all sorts of chores-tending the canteen, courts-martial, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director, checking up on mess purchases. Many colonels made virtual errand boys of their chaplains...
Reports like these keyed all too well with word that the Germans were in virtual control of the International Zone of Tangier, that they were building airports in southern Spain within half an hour's flight of Gibraltar...
Thus the U.S. assumed a virtual protectorate over Greenland. It acted under the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids the transfer of territory in the Americas from one non-American power to another. In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen muttered about taking appropriate action. In Copenhagen the Danish Government, under Nazi pressure, disavowed the agreement, protested, ordered Minister de Kauffmann's recall. Minister de Kauffmann paid no attention...