Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The first legal shot was fired. To test the section prohibiting political action in union papers which are supported by members' dues, labor's press published the congressional voting record on the bill. The C.I.O. hoped it would be prosecuted. In Washington, A.F.L. and C.I.O officials met to...
He and his brethren at the meeting called for a "supranational government, with powers adequate to the responsibility of maintaining the peace." They asked: "Is this realistic?" and answered by saying: "We believe that nothing less is realistic." The scientists did not go any further in examining the political realism...
In Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his...
Use of plants as mineral "indicators" is still a new science. When it is further developed, a prospector will have to know botany as well as geology. For example, if he finds a plant called Amorpha canescens growing where little else grows, he will have a good hint that the...
Earl Wilson began a column: "I want it understood that I am one newspaperman who knows absolutely nothing about Bugsy Siegel's murder." But he couldn't resist the urge a few paragraphs further to be on the inside too: "Word was passed around about three weeks ago...