Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly striven to conduct myself as my mother would wish me to," said William Marshall Boyle to a Senate investigating committee. Many citizens mistakenly assumed that this statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a piece of pious patter. But Bill Boyle was in sober earnest. His mother is still honored in Kansas City as one of Boss Tom Pendergast's best precinct workers of the 1920s. Friends of the family, discussing Bill Boyle, say somewhat condescendingly that he is a nice, pleasant fellow; Clara, his mother, now retired, was "the politician of the family...
...Robert Taft has been stumping across the land, making some gains. Supporters of Harold E. Stassen, who had been counted as an Ike man, announced that they will open Stassen headquarters in St. Louis. Last week, having seen enough, the Eisenhower men made plans to open their campaign in earnest within a month...
...note jointly signed by the leaders of the three political parties, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Clement Davies. "Madam," it said, "at this time of anxiety we wish with our humble duty to assure Your Majesty that our thoughts are with you and the Princesses. It is our earnest prayer that His Majesty the King may soon be fully restored to health...
...Manhattan grocery, in 1912 set up a new kind of store based on cash & carry, low profit, big volume, fast turnover. The experiment caught on and before long the Hartfords were adding stores at the rate of three a day (today there are 4,700). A sober, earnest man dedicated to his work, Brother John left the financial part of the business to Brother George, concentrated on policy and expansion, visited as many as 3,000 of his branches a year keeping personal tabs on his 120,000 employees...
...season election lassitude in Boston and Cambridge will quickly wear off next week as politicians begin campaigning in earnest. At stake in Cambridge are a mayorship, eight city council, and six school committee positions; in Boston, a mayorship, nine city council, and five school committee posts...