Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from labor...
...Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...
...paradoxical wit. To freethinkers he said: "You are armed to the teeth and buttoned up to the chin with the great agnostic Orthodoxy, perhaps the most placid and perfect of all the orthodoxies of men. . . . I approach you with the reverence and the courage due to a bench of bishops...
...became useful to Candidate Roosevelt; he dug up facts for campaign speeches, modestly made many a sound suggestion. Governor Roosevelt made Rosenman his personal counsel, dubbed him "Sammy the Rose." In 1932 The Rose was appointed, then elected to a 14-year term on the New York Supreme Court bench. But for a decade he has remained a trusted Roosevelt adviser, shuttling back & forth-half the week in Washington, where a White House bed was always made...
Those who insisted that the report was as significant as the famed Baruch rubber report exaggerated. Baruch, assisted by Byrnes's consultant John Hancock, had not intended to make an overall manpower study. At Czar Jimmy's request, he had sat down with aircraft makers* on the bench in Washington's Lafayette Park, and there had worked out a plan to avert a disastrous slump in West Coast airplane production. His recommendations, to set up a labor budget and balance West Coast manpower with production by funneling workers into essential plants, have already been put into effect...