Word: lineing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government, said Taft, had an obligation to help those who simply could not help themselves. On that principle he estimated the Taft program for housing, health, education and relief would cost only $1 billion a year; in contrast, he figured, the Fair Deal line which Harry Truman was peddling would cost the country $14 billion a year...
Touring a rubber factory (nonunion) he laid out his labor line. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to cut down the power of labor bosses, he explained, just as the Sherman Act had been designed to cut down the power of covetous industrialists. Carbon-begrimed workers, some of them Amishmen with stony faces and beards, listened carefully and thoughtfully applauded...
...German Kaiser's responsibility for starting World War I, he wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That started him off on heraldry...
...displays for men's stores. (You can see them this month in some 200 stores across the U.S.) Cluett-Peabody, makers of Arrow shirts, ties, etc., heard about the displays and asked us for permission to use 15 of the coats of arms as designs for a new line of "heraldic neckwear...
...time he was well received. At a luncheon on his 60th birthday, the Republicans of Parkman sang "Happy Birthday, dear Bob." At Lakewood's Westlake Hotel at a gathering of 400 clubwomen, a lady soloist sang Thank God for a Garden, coming down hard on the last line: "Thank God for you." She meant the Senator, she explained...