Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Defense Secretary George Marshall was trying to straighten out the snafu. He ordered the services i) to make up their minds how many more men they will need in the next six months, 2) give 30 days notice to those who are going to be recalled, 3) inform all others they will not be mobilized for at least four months. He also directed that reservists should be kept on active duty only until volunteers and draftees meet manpower requirements. Around the Pentagon, estimates of those requirements went up again last week with reports of the reverses in Korea...
...gerrymandering, the Democrats charge that Republicans mapped out extremely abnormal districts when they were in power after the last census, and that a Democratic General Court--the legislature in Massachusetts--will straighten them out. The Republicans do not try to deny this charge; they merely state that the Democrats will surely gerrymander the state their...
Radford was called back to Washington to straighten out Navy air administration -particularly in the matter of getting combat-equipped planes from the factories to the fighting areas. When that had been satisfactorily attended to, he went to sea again, this time commanding Carrier Group 58.4-a component of wizened, brilliant Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58. His group joined the first carrier strikes- after Doolittle-on the Japanese home islands...
...industry or crop to protect hung an amendment on the bill exempting his pet. Said Delaware's John Williams: "Everyone will be exempt from this bill but the consumers." Such as it was, the Senate passed the bill (84-3). A House and Senate conference would have to straighten...
Last week, nonetheless, it looked as though scholars might finally get their chance to straighten out the poetic quirks and biographical kinks in the Dickinson legend. After years of persuasion, Harvard had finally convinced Alfred Leete Hampson, longtime friend of Emily's niece, and heir to Emily's letters and manuscripts, that he should part with them. Manhattan Bibliophile Gilbert Holland Montague had put up "a very substantial sum," turned the collection over to Harvard's Houghton Library for a special Emily Dickinson room...