Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flue and down another, usually in the buff. As an old man he was especially fond of telling newspaper reporters how he frightened one maiden lady by emerging from the fireplace near her bed with no protective covering to cover his nakedness. She screamed and he scrambled back up the flue...
...Richards and Ohio's Republican John M. Vorys, a powerful coalition set out to slice the Administration's two-year plan for Western Europe in half. "If you want a two-year program," said Richards, "let's allow for the first year and then come back and take a look...
Chances were that the Senate would put back some, if not all, of the cuts. The Republican compromise worked out by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles would trim the funds for Europe to an even billion. "But," said Dulles, "there will be no disposition to be foolish and bullheaded about it. That was one of the reasons why the Administration's bill got such bad treatment...
...bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change and a hundred employers find themselves back at the cutting table...
...real chance in the New Deal. Seeing NRA coming, Dubinsky had softened up the industry with quick, organizational strikes, picked up 160,000 new members in six months. When NRA was nullified by the Supreme Court, Dubinsky announced that he would strike any employer who tried to back out of its agreements. Says he slyly: "First you get a whip, and then when everyone knows you have it, put it in the refrigerator...