Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House to A. F. of L.'s President William Green in December failed to mollify Labor...
Newshawks found "Eve" Shinn in the middle of his gallery last week, re-enacting for the benefit of a few oldtimers another of his melodramas, dear to the author but less successful commercially than Hazel Weston. It was entitled Lucy Moore, the Prune Hater's Daughter. Leaping about the room, acting out each part and interpolating editorial comments, Artist Shinn gave his version of the plot. Excerpts...
...however, am so accustomed to the style of TIME that I consider it a dear old friend and don't accuse it of being smart-aleck. There is an intelligent lady here who cancelled her subscription to TIME because of certain statements in it quite some time ago in reference to the Jews which she construed to savor of antiSemitism. The trouble is that she, as well as others who accuse TIME of other things, is still a stranger to this weekly. When I first became a subscriber I, too, thought TIME to be smart-aleck and guilty...
...renewal is that Franklin Roosevelt wants it renewed. As a parent it would certainly pain him to see the favorite Recovery child of his Administration die a death of legal limitation -especially after he has so often praised it for abolishing child labor. But it is dear to him for other reasons as well. He promised the U. S. a new order, social and economic. Most of his Administration's acts have not, however, attempted to set up such an order but rather to repair the old order, to rebalance what was out of balance, to rescue isolated groups...
...President also took occasion to make public his reply to a resolution passed at the San Francisco convention last October urging him to dismiss NIRB Chairman S. Clay Williams for anti-labor acts supposedly committed when he was president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. "Dear Bill," the President patiently began in his answer to Mr. Green, "I think it is perhaps best that I should not reply officially to the resolution. . . . There is no need for any controversy over the resolution or in regard to a number of inaccuracies of fact and conclusion in the resolution. As you know...