Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Murray, who have held labor in line with the Little Steel formula, marched to the White House to threaten mutiny unless prices went down. This was a very interesting piece of byplay, for everyone guessed that while the two labor leaders talked tough on the front steps, to impress their members, they were probably much less belligerent inside, imploring the President to hold prices level, rather than threatening him if he did not roll prices back...
...Insignia. The British refused to accredit him. His claim that he was the only correspondent from a paper west of the Mississippi failed to impress them. Why, they said, we've got plenty of correspondents from west of the Mississippi - five from Chicago, for instance. Tom Treanor was not permitted to go near the front...
...deposition of a Moslem ruler by a Christian power would impress the Tunisians and their fellow Moslems in Africa and the Near East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week was probably the wisest policy for the moment, but it did not allay the Moslem suspicion that the Allies have only one war aim-to chase out the Axis, insure a safe base for military operations and keep what they have won in battle...
...Burt Wheeler's Interstate Commerce Committee, he showed unexpected talents as an investigator of railroad high shenanigans. (He and canny Burt Wheeler are still good friends, despite their schism on foreign policy.) But this was too esoteric an assignment to impress many voters back home. They saw him chiefly in another light...
...sure that there can be no talk of that. In Germany no one thinks today of any rotten compromise. . . . Only a German victory can favorably impress foreign countries." But Propagandist Goebbels had mentioned peace, he had mentioned feelers-and, for whatever they were worth, the feelers did exist...