Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed a terrible situation, but not quite in the way the officer meant it. In Washington, an Army officer, also anonymously quoted, confirmed the story: Frankfurt had proposed Clapp for a 90-day A.M.G. job, but Army Intelligence had notified Frankfurt he was "unemployable." Would the officer give details? "Further comment," he said importantly, "should come from Mr. Clapp...
...this climate, the debate got under way. Ohio's Taft spoke from one end of the line: "There may of course be a mandate on the President to request the repeal (of the Taft-Hartley Act), but ... certainly the people did not elect a Congress in any way pledged to [its] repeal...
...grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five infants snuggled in their parents' laps. Pilot Alfred O. Cockrill of Pittsfield, Mass., late of the Naval Air Transport service, took off, headed northwest for Miami, on the way to New York...
...home island and the back streets of New York City. Most of the traffic, on unscheduled flights, is handled by ex-service pilots with war-surplus planes-like the Strato Freight Co., which operated the Commando in last week's crash. It hauls the islanders for $60 one way, flies whenever it has a load. It had operated strictly within the letter of the law. Refurbished and approved in April by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Commando was actually flying 500 pounds under its gross weight limit, 45,000 pounds. In Puerto Rico last week, there was agitation...
...haired youth named John J. (for Jay) McCloy, then just out of Amherst, later was to spend ten years of his life proving that the rumors were true, and hanging the Black Tom guilt on the German government. He learned the worst of the Germans as he threaded his way through a maze of false leads up & down Europe; he learned of German deceit and arrogance and violence that had led to one world calamity and was to lead to another...