Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McNutt announcement blocking labor's right to change jobs seemed a little too tough and too sudden to other Washington officials. By week's end there were some hasty assurances that it would not happen yet, that the announcement was premature. It would happen though, observers were certain, if the labor shortage became acute...
...doubt, no doubt," said the Devil. "But what is going to happen to that madhouse up there when more & more of you get killed...
Take A Letter, Darling (Paramount) is dedicated to the proposition that anything can happen in an advertising agency. On this premise, it is not unreasonable that in the firm of Atwater (Robert Benchley) & MacGregor (Rosalind Russell) the senior partner should devote his time to pitching quoits and avoiding issues while his attractive junior does all the work...
...angry picture. Its wrath is directed at violators of U.S. civil rights, especially those vested interests who struck down American working men in the labor turmoil of the recent 1930s. Unashamedly pro-labor propaganda, it is, nevertheless, an eloquent indictment of acts of injustice and intolerance which did happen here and might again...
...take that damned column of Clapper's. What does he expect Congress to do-go out and run the war? And if we start that, what will happen? Why, the newspapers will be the first ones to jump on us and say that we are bitching up the war effort, that we are mixing in stuff that we have no business to, that we ought to shut up and let the Army and Navy...