Word: godsend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triple Godsend to John Llewellyn Lewis. First it enabled him to "organize" coal fields that had not been unionized, to increase the members of his United Mine Workers from 300,000 to 650,000 in a few months. Second, NRA provided a new force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis...
Buyers' Strike? Individual retailers (but not their trade associations) began to have misgivings. Perhaps price-fixing was not the Godsend they believed. Though it was estimated that September dollar sales were 8% to 10% above a year ago, the rise was more than accounted for by increased prices-proof that the volume of trade was off. Merchants talked nervously of a Buyers' Strike. Consumers feared that retailers would use the code as an excuse for general price-upping, particularly in communities where competition was slack. The NRA had been used as an excuse before. In July the price...
...Jane Cowl opened a two week's engagement with her new version of Dumas' "Camille," Miss Cowl, of course, makes the play but there is an excellent supporting cast including Rolle Peters. Prices are $1.00 for best orchestra seats, the same as for "Goodbye Again," which was a genuine godsend to drama-staryed Bostonians...
...district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken up, but is a godsend keeping me up on what goes on in the mother-land...
...Where our ancestors dipped their pens in acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself...