Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young hotheads advocated forming a third party and to hell with both the G.O.P. and Franklin Roosevelt. C.I.O. President Phil Murray offered some cool advice. Third parties, he said, are not practical. And Sidney Hillman warned: "Don't come along with any highfalutin organization that may work out 25 years from now, or may not." Murray and Hillman well knew how third parties have failed in the U.S.: the Populists, the Socialists, the Communists, "Big Bill" Haywood's Wobblies (the I.W.W.), whose theory of progress was to dynamite the social order; or even old Bob LaFollette...
Ismahan heard the news gaily. She had just finished work on her latest movie. She said goodbye to steaming Cairo, stepped into her limousine, headed north for a cool vacation on the Mediterranean. While she was laughing over a joke her maid was telling her, the car skidded, plunged into a deep Nile canal, carried Ismahan to death...
...Cool in Combat. "Primarily they were used as ammunition carriers and beachhead unloading parties, but on Saipan some were used for combat. When Japs counterattacked the 4th Marine Division near Charan Kanoa, twelve Negroes were thrown into the defense line. Their white officers said they accounted for about 15 Japs...
Independence day dawned cool and cloudy in Atlanta. Soon after the polls were open for Georgia's Democratic primary, two well-dressed Negroes drove up to a small drug store on the south side. The Negroes went in, politely asked the white woman in charge of registration lists for their ballots. When the registrar was unable to find their names on any list, the Negroes left as quietly as they had come...
...have found, however, several who are sound in mind and body and who yet have no fear of draft boards. We saw them wearing short pants on the way to classes the other day. They were probably ex-quiz kids. They couldn't have been trying to keep cool for one were a coat, stiff collar and bow tie. We hesitated to question them on this oddity for they seemed so confident, even in this garb. Nevertheless, we feel sure that they will become of age to wear knickerbockers by next fall...