Word: clinchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clincher. In Washington, a notice" was posted on the Boiling Field bulletin board : "i. Effective this date, no liquor or other intoxicating beverages will be introduced into barracks. Infractions will result in disciplinary action. 2. All unnecessary drunkenness will not be tolerated also...
Democrats tried to dismiss Kentucky's clincher as "local issues." The New York Times's Arthur Krock, who used to live in the Fourth himself, judiciously summed up: "If the result did not foreshadow a certain Republican victory next year, it increased the prospect...
...learned from him the technique of the freehanded overstatement. Later, May took a two-week course in "business engineering," and went to work as an efficiency expert. Soon he was a crack salesman of efficiency systems and able to set up for himself in Chicago in 1925. His sales clincher: "If you will let us put in a production-control system, about all you will have to do, Mr. President, is come down and open the mail and go home...
...argument is simple. Neither John Bricker nor any other reliable Republican wheel horse can beat Roosevelt in wartime. But "the people will really be voting for a Commander in Chief rather than for a President, and there are no credentials equal to Mac Arthur's upon that score." Clincher is the Washington-Jackson-Har-rison-Taylor-Grant-T. Roosevelt tradition of soldier heroes who have been swept to the White House on crests of military glory. Vandenberg is prudently holding his tongue in public "until the proper time...
What to Do. As a clincher for his argument that something must be done about paper work, the colonel offers the case of the first sergeant on Bataan who was seriously wounded while crawling across a fire-swept area to take the morning report for his company commander to initial. Can something be done about the surging flood of forms and orders? Colonel Gillette hopefully proposes that...