Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curley had met Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard...
...Lotion-maker Andrew Jergens, who relentlessly advertised the charm of soft hands, was no soft touch for labor unions. Though the A.F.L. Cosmetic Workers were certified in 1941 as bargaining agent for Jergens' 150 employees in his Burbank, Calif, plant, Jergens refused to bargain even after the National War Labor Board ordered...
Bearing in mind the two heart-breakers of 1947 (14-13) and 1948 (14-7), to day's game figures to be somewhat closer than the odds maker would have it. Both teams are pretty much the teams of last year. The string may run out on Dartmouth today, though Valpey commented last night, "We'll do our best, but I can't promise anything...
...Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally I was in the copper shops...