Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assertion that the 15 million U.S. Negroes would never fight in a war against Soviet Russia. But, as many a big-league pitcher could have told the committee, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, organized baseball's first Negro and the National League's leading batter, was never a guy to bunt a fat pitch with the bases loaded. Testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Jackie Robinson quickly dismissed Robeson's statement as "silly." But there was something else he wanted...
...Reuther came armed with studies showing, he said, that the industry could raise wages 70? an hour and still make 8% on its investment. Said Reuther in one huge gulp: "This is the time for labor to stand up and say we are getting in trouble because the little guy hasn't got enough and therefore he has to fight harder now to get what he is entitled to in order to avoid going into a depression...
Last week, in the closing days of debate, the Senate suddenly burst out in confused soul-searching and stubborn reservations. Proponents like Iowa's Guy Gillette announced support "with the greatest reluctance, with deep misgivings, with grave doubts and qualms." Ohio's Robert Taft, who had announced his opposition "with the greatest discomfort," suggested extending the Monroe Doctrine to Western Europe instead...
...found a great big tack in its bourbon barrel. Its state officials swarmed angrily on Washington, where the Bureau of Internal Revenue was deciding a momentous question: Is whisky stored in used casks just as good as whisky stored, Kentucky-fashion, in new charred white oak casks? Up rose Guy C. Shearer, administrator of Kentucky's liquor board. "Kentucky," cried he, "is a bourbon state . . . steeped in the knowledge and in the tradition of the production of whisky, both legal . . . and illegal." The Treasury, hinted Shearer, had better not tell Kentucky how whisky should be made...
Born. To Burt Lancaster, 35, cinema hard guy (The Killers, Brute Force), and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 32: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Elizabeth. Weight...