Word: blowoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thunderclap. All this time Harry Woodring hung on to his job, helped by Franklin Roosevelt's chronic reluctance to fire anyone. Not until early 1940 did the blowoff finally come. At the President's instructions, Johnson had begun shipping arms and munitions to beleaguered Britain, by arbitrarily declaring them unfit for U.S. use and thus legally available for export. Woodring refused to permit such goings-on. But Roosevelt insisted, and Woodring resigned in a letter so bitter that it has never been published in full...
...sooner had Premier Robert Schuman's government beaten the Communist-fomented "state of insurrection" than the antiCommunist revolt in the ranks of French labor gathered speed. The blowoff came sooner than many observers had expected...
...sparks the show, but Joe himself says: "It's the man at the helm ... the pilot." The man at the helm is shrewd Manager Bucky Harris. Not the least of his talents is keeping peace between the players and rambunctious Larry MacPhail, the club president. The blowoff that cleared the air came May 22, when MacPhail fined six stubborn players (including DiMaggio) for refusing to cooperate with the Yankee promotion office. From that day, with the team mad, the Yankees rolled up 34 victories in the next 46 games. Harris' pre-game pep talk was always the same...
Direct cause of the blowoff was Republican cross-examination of General of the Army George C. Marshall, which consumed seven days while a plane stood by to rush the General to his urgent job in China. Michigan's eager Senator Homer Ferguson, still looking for evidence that Franklin Roosevelt had war-mongered, took up 92 hours of Marshall's time...
...seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...