Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fat Cats." National campaign patterns are reversed in Michigan: Republican Bagwell is attacking the incumbent administration, Democrat Swainson is defending it. Bagwell charges that Soapy Williams' high-taxing and labor-leaning administration has scared off employers, swelled Michigan's unemployment (current rate: 6.3%). Asks Bagwell: "Does anyone believe that re-election of a Democratic state administration, with its uncompromising attitude and continual emphasis on political war between labor and industry, can get the 100,000 jobs a year that our people need?" Democrat Swainson sounds not unlike Republican Richard Nixon as he defends the record of the state...
...skull-cracking industrial disputes of the '30s are still vivid, union politicians are not above fanning class strife. Says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. pamphlet circulating in Michigan: "The people voting against you are the bankers, the merchants, the car dealers, the big industries, the utilities-all the fat cats who make money whether you have...
...political purple. His family, down through the generations, counts five Congressmen and one Rhode Island lieutenant governor. Young Pell himself had put in a tour in the U.S. Foreign Service (Czechoslovakia, Italy) and dabbled in state politics, mostly as a fund raiser. But in this campaign it was his fat checkbook, his patrician manners and his softly spoken determination to get to Washington that counted most. Billboards and statewide TV wrote his name large across the summer. He traveled tirelessly, talking to Rhode Island's immigrant minorities in French, Italian or Portuguese. He promised relief for Rhode Island...
...There they created the most exciting mano a mano in the history of film cartoons-matchless Tom and Jerry. For 18 years they manipulated the big cat and the little mouse for MGM's critical and financial profit, year after year sat mousily at home uninvited while some fat cat stepped forward to accept Tom and Jerry Academy Awards (seven...
...smarter now than when I had the big fastball," says Spahn. "I do a lot of things now besides just knowing the batters and being able to hit the spots. Sometimes I get behind hitters on purpose. That makes them hungry hitters. They start looking for fat pitches. I make my living off hungry hitters...