Word: friend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what he could for his steelworkers, Murray was in no mood for a strike at this time. After all, steel production was already beginning to exceed demands. The solution he found last week was one that would probably become familiar: turn everything over to labor's good friend, the President. Harry Truman, unable to deliver on his promise to repeal Taft-Hartley, was anxious to be helpful in every...
...careful to avoid any show of steamroller tactics. Anyhow, the noisy left-wing opposition of past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...
...quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
Last year, Keener decided to take a trip to Europe and see if he could land some reconstruction contracts abroad. His offer: to build complete industrial installations (e.g., steel plants, sugar mills, gas manufacturing plants) anywhere in the world. Before he left, a friend warned him: "Sam, if you're going to Europe, wear some kind of uniform. It'll get you any place and you'll get no place without it." Sam designed his own outfit and found it worked like a charm, cowing officious customs men and clearing the way through red tape...
...Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly's husband, who has lost his interest in women anyway, and whisking him and Lady Montdore off to a gay Paris holiday. "So here we are, my darling," chortles Cedric to an old friend, "having lovely cake and eating it, too, which is one's great aim in life...