Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...
LABOR It'd Better Be Good...
...again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
...Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty for effective U.N. control of atomic energy. Said Austin...
...last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide...