Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recipient of this letter was New York's Senator Wagner, its author, Governor Herbert Lehman. Incredible as this flat pronouncement was to many, it caused no real surprise at the White House. "Dear Herbert" who a year ago had been so eagerly drafted had not produced in November the votes which were expected. He failed to poll as many votes in New York as Franklin Roosevelt. Having proved a liability rather than an asset his welcome at the White House was not quite so warm, and patronage favors ceased to flow liberally in his direction. Since shortly after...
...Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted to return to work, and the local's president Fred Wetmore resigned for "the good of the Union"- meaning that A. F. of L. thought he was too friendly with...
...Engineer Tom Clarke whose regular job is to drive the Coronation Scot, the latest and most lushly appointed British streamlined train. The-famed Flying Scotsman], hitherto the fastest London-Edinburgh train, makes the 392 miles in 7½ hrs. The Coronation Scot has cut this to six hours flat...
...Elmira, N. Y., where the Soaring Society of America was holding its eighth annual meet last week, the air one day was heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds...
...English, the Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found...