Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This suggestion came from dapper, poker-faced Robert Wood Johnson, 53, wartime brigadier general (in Ordnance and as boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp.) and board chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical supplies). To a Senate labor subcommittee, now considering a bill to raise the minimum to 65? an hour, Johnson said: not high enough; the U.S. can now "pay higher wages and sell at lower costs. This equation needs no proof beyond the record of the past 50 years, . . . We can honestly say, at least in our country, that man does not have the right to employ his fellow...
First on board to greet Mackenzie King were Britain's black-hatted, dapper Deputy Under Secretary for the Dominions Sir John Stephenson, and tall Frederic Hudd, Canada's Acting High Commissioner in Britain. Behind them came Southampton civic dignitaries, led by the wife of the city's ailing Lord Mayor, Job Charles Dyas. Primly the Lady Mayoress recited a prepared speech of thanks for clothing that Canada had sent to the city during the blitz...
When he was committed for trial last June, William Joyce had been a shabby sight. He was not shabby last week. In a blue suit, a white shirt, a blue tie, he looked dapper and confident...
While Republicans complained that they had been given a slow horse for a fast race, Democrats prepared to fight Bill Knowland next year. Their favored candidate was another newspaperman: New Dealer Manchester Boddy, dapper 54-year-old camellia king and publisher of Los Angeles' fast-stepping, politically potent Daily News...
...fusion with the Communist Party was Italy's No. 1 Socialist, Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, elegant in dapper grey trousers and an ivory-toned monogrammed shirt. Cried he: "Any policy not based on unity of the working classes will gradually lead our country and our party to slip from a revolutionary position to that of mere reform. . . . We are today 700,000 Socialists. When we shall have united with the Communists and formed a new unified party, we must not, however, renounce our Socialism. . . . Perhaps two generations from now differences between Socialists and Communists will have disappeared...