Word: beholdenness
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...entirely was still not over, the committee unanimously approved President Truman's nomination of W. Stuart Symington to be the single boss of a reorganized RFC and the full Senate confirmed him later without dissent. Able Man-About-Government Stu Symington solemnly assured the Senators that he was "beholden" to no five-percenters or influence-peddlers, an assertion that few Congressmen needed reassurance about...
...send to the U.S. Senate, to replace the late Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican. The union boys wanted one of their own men-an ex-union functionary named George Edwards, who ran in 1949 for mayor of Detroit and lost. Williams, already worried because many Michiganders regard him as too beholden to labor, balked. Finally Reuther and Scholle gave in, conceded that Soapy's own choice would be "acceptable...
...more amazed than amazing [TIME, May 1]. When your valued periodical reached me, I . . . measured the Baldwin shelf. To be accurate, the two shelves sagging under the output of somewhat less than 30 years, thank you, measure, together, eight feet . . . I would be beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there...
Workers who were once beholden to their bosses were not much more than industrial serfs, says Boyer. They lived in fear and depended on the big smile and the well-shined shoe for their future. Now they depend on their union, which means that they depend on themselves. This change in the workers' mentality is the democratic dynamic of our time. Some day historians will note the change, and this skillfully written book will be one of their sources...
Tennessee's Governor, an ex-livestock auctioneer named Jim McCord, is a Crumpet; so is U.S. Senator Tom Stewart. Sick old spoilsman Senator Kenneth McKellar is beholden to Mister Crump. West Tennessee's Congressmen are his to command. He sways the state legislature. And in Memphis and Shelby County, politicians move like automatons at his bidding-running daily to his office for instructions...