Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose was to get to the bottom of charges that the union "is filled up with Commies." Amidst jeering and booing, Waiter Doyle first offered to stand trial himself on his unionism, then resigned from N.M.U. This would cost him his job, Curran promised, because the Ancon's N.M.U. crew would not stand for his being...
Amid Laborite howls M.P. Hopkinson went on to call Labor Minister Ernest Bevin "an unskilled laborer,"* unfit to handle the complex problems of labor organization. Said Hopkinson: "The labor question has been grossly mishandled for the last twelve months. . . . The whole thing is chaos from top to bottom...
Yosuke Matsuoka arrived home from Geneva in a burst of glory, still talking sweetly to the rest of the world. ("I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that...
...trouble with these figures is while 1939 ships are sinking fast, 1941 ships are getting bigger. Of 384 ships abuilding in the Maritime Commission's emergency program, only around 30 could keep their keels off the Seaway bottom...
...except for some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station...