Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delegates to the United Auto Workers' convention listened politely to the paternal, burr-flecked voice. Words were inadequate, said C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray, to express the good will he felt toward that splendid little redhead, Walter Reuther. Over the mike in Atlantic City's cavernous Convention Hall, he purred...
...signed contracts for a new union railroad station, a score of under-and overpasses, the filling of the now useless canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
...committee, headed by K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., recommended to the President the immediate adoption of a program to build 46 passenger vessels in the next four years. Two of them would be 50,000-ton express liners of 2,000-passenger capacity, designed to compete with Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth...
...reason little "Mister Bart" sells more daily papers than anybody else in Britain (except Beaverbrook's Daily Express) is that his political acumen has made the independent Mirror the country's most sensitive barometer of the political weather. Sometimes it also helps to make the weather. A week before the 1945 election, the Mirror demanded that Britain "turn the Tories out." Then the paper supported Labor. Last July, Mister Bart spotted storm clouds ahead, for Labor and the Mirror cried: "Attlee must...
When they found time, the painters published a magazine-El Machete-to express their violent view of the world, and to print their drawings. "Orozco used to eat a priest for breakfast every morning," says Siqueiros. "He drew some very powerful anti-church cartoons for us. . . . Once I met a tough old lady warrior who had been a colonel in Zapata's army. She was also anticlerical so I brought her around to meet Orozco. Foolishly, I left them alone for a couple of minutes. When I came back she had Orozco by the hair and he was kicking...