Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost all of the occupation forces' top brass were at the dockside in Yokohama one day last week as Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger walked slowly up the gangplank of an Army transport. There were few dry eyes among the generals and colonels. Many an Eighth Army G.I. was in the dumps. Said one hard-faced sergeant: "There goes the best goddam man the Army ever raised." At 62, Bob Eichelberger was going into retirement...
...with the local's brass-knuckle tactics, 30% of the 658 Univis production workers asked for and got a National Labor Relations Board election. Result: the U.E. was rejected as bargaining agent. Even then, the local refused to call off the strike...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...
...president of the Federal Reserve Bank (since 1946), he has found time to double in brass as secretary (and traveling salesman) for the New England Council. He likes to preach the greatness of New England industry, and pooh-poohs statistics (which sometimes tell a different tale). At the dingy, church-quiet Federal Reserve Bank he woke things up by providing piped-in music...
...Cain's dream girls are screenable without a change of makeup; so is Jack Dillon. A star halfback and a trained engineer, he has "taffy" blond hair, dimples in his shoulders, and he displays that blend of brass and mechanical ingenuity that is required of a Cain hero, like an Eagle Scout who never heard of the gentler things a Scout is supposed to be. The best things in the book are like the best things in all Cain's books: clear, fast-moving narrative passages in which Jack Dillon tells you step by step how he bluffed...