Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood canteen, the arms of Joan Leslie, and almost the altar, before a troop train arrives to carry him off. The story's main excuse is to try to form a link between the musicalia, which appear every ten minutes. Like "Thank Your Lucky Stars" and "Thousands Cheer," this movie is just an unoriginal variation on the star parade theme...
Almost the only wholesaler who boomed a really hearty welcome to the members of the N.R.D.G.A. last week (see above) was stocky, suntanned Milton Reynolds, who flew in from Mexico. The reason Reynolds exuded smiles and cheer was that he had something unique to sell. He told amazed retailers that he could deliver Mexican-made, sterling silver cigaret lighters at the rate of 20,000 a month. The price: $6 each, including U.S. customs duty...
Justice Robert H. Jackson concurred with the majority decision. But in his agreement, he took occasion to write words of cheer for businessmen. Employers, he said in effect, have not been getting their rights to free speech under labor's Magna Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must admit that in overriding the findings of the Texas court we are applying to Thomas a rule the benefit of which in all its breadth and vigor this court denies to employers in NLRB cases. . . . However, the remedy is not to allow Texas improperly to deny the right of free...
Democrats applauded. Republicans were notably silent. But everyone rose to cheer his closing words: "I trust, I pray, I hope that we will not fail the world...
...budget sent by the President to Congress was $13 billion below last year's whopper, but it was no time for the economy-minded to cheer. The budget was still an astronomical $86,767,000,000, and it was less than last year's because the U.S. had finished building most of its war plants. An Allied victory in Europe might cut the budget by billions; a renewed show of German strength might raise it by billions. But Franklin Roosevelt refused to be prophetic...