Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers would go back to work or the Navy would take over, hire its own men, put them under Civil Service, guard them with Marines. Roared Admiral Blakely: "Open revolt against the United States Government. ... I fully intend to see that certain San Diego labor leaders do not bludgeon the United States Navy...
...beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings" brackets, between $15,000 and $500,000. In the making, taxperts guessed, was some bludgeon being tooled to club upstanding tax-exempt securities into an abject state of taxation...
...Santa Barbara and San Francisco, where movie actors are no novelty; but roaring business farther east precipitated a slight internal explosion when the members were forced to do five or six shows daily instead of the agreed four. Lolly soon quelled the uprising (her column is the most frightening bludgeon in Hollywood), thereafter kept things going swimmingly. In Manhattan on Christmas Day she spread cheer with a party for her "children," presented the girls with $150 evening dresses, the boys with equally expensive remembrances. Camaraderie eventually spread to the point where Actor Reagan and Actress Wyman decided to marry, were...