Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the babel of indignation, of cries for laws to outlaw strikes, came one calm voice. The owner of the voice was William Hammatt Davis, vice chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board. He spoke to the House Military Affairs Committee, but his words were for the whole U.S. Said he: "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials...
With fellow members of the Mediation Board, he called management and labor into conference, calmed them by being calm, let each side give its account of the 75-day-old fight. Then he began to ask questions, avoiding questions which could be answered No. He covered the main point of the controversy by writing an agreement which gave the union security against attempts to organize another union within the plant, and reassured the company that no man's job depended on union membership...
...danger is that undergraduates who were pumped by Blitzkrieg im Westen will carry away with them, not a calm realization of Germany's grip on the continent, but an abstract fear of Hitler and the forces that are at his command. It is successful propaganda only if it makes us want to turn and run. It boomerangs against Hitler if it makes us realize something of the undramatic, thorough, machine-against-machine character of modern warfare. Preparation against the blitzkrieg, not a paralysis-through-fear, is the lesson we must draw from this film...
...sirens sounded. Lady Astor and her guests stepped outside and watched what she had to admit was "a magnificent sight": flares falling from an armada of Nazi planes, then incendiary bombs planting their fateful beacons, then murder in high explosives. Calm as a Drake, Nancy Astor took note of something which dawned on all Britain last week. The air raids had become part of the Battle of the Atlantic...
Randolph Scott is the main rider of the range, and treats every crisis with a cool and studied calm. Unfortunately for himself and the lady of the piece, however, his last crisis, when he shoots it out with a wayward brother, does him in. Said lady is thereby left to the endearments of the smooth but sturdy Harvardman, played by Robert Young and his most insipid smirk. The lady is an unknown by the name of Virginia Gilmore, who is blonde if nothing else. Dean Jagger is the capable Western Union boss through all trials and tribulations and does...