Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential campaign promised to be notable for irresponsible charges and ridiculous statements. Candidate Harry Truman charged that the Republican Party, and thus Candidate Tom Dewey, was the tool of "special interests." Candidate Henry Wallace cried that Candidate Truman was the tool of "the big money or the big brass." Candidate Dewey had not yet said anything, but he had okayed Harold Stassen's accusation that President Truman was trying to set "class against class...
...other nations then called for help to W. Averell Harriman, the Marshall Plan's top man in Europe, who in any case was getting frantic wigwags from EDAdministrator Paul Hoffman in the U.S. Harriman visited the top economic brass in Brussels and London, and finally persuaded Lucius Clay that German-needs, however important, must be subordinated to the interests of the whole. Clearly, however, the first OEEC figure would have to be raised. The final figure agreed on for Bizonia was $414 million, less $10 million in contributed exports...
...weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest shake of all was given Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, 55, the slight, reserved general manager of the Buick Motor division. He was moved up to the newly created job of G.M. executive vice president in charge of all nonproduction activities except finance (labor relations, public relations, etc.) The promotion...
...talk later with News-Herald Reporter Hal Malone, the Archbishop got down to brass tacks. Said he: "Such demonstrations are accountable for the lust and rape that we read about almost daily . . . You would have to be an iceberg to be in the same room with a semi-nude woman and not be subject to immoral ideas...
...Ottawa, everything went smoothly. Forrestal enjoyed a round of parties and two rounds of golf. There was a two-hour brass-tacks session with the brass hats...