Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Impossible." Murray, deep in trouble, learned about Lewis' offer from newsmen and reacted to it with the air of a man who will believe it when he sees the color of Lewis' money. Aware of Lewis' insinuation that the Steelworkers could not fend for themselves, he said: "The United Steelworkers of America and [the C.I.O] stand prepared ... to pool their resources for the common defense and general welfare of the labor movement." The Steelworkers are aware that the U.M.W. is itself engaged in a "mighty struggle," Murray added pointedly, and they might well have use for such...
...referred to himself as a "simple man from a country of simple ways," but the U.S. soon found that his position on world affairs involved complexities, not to say contradictions. To Congress, he declared that India would not "acquiesce in any challenge to man's freedom from whatever quarter it may come. Where freedom is menaced, or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot and shall not be neutral...
...with Curley, as with Boston, the ordinary rules did not apply. Last week, as the mayoralty campaign heated up, the old man got up at 6 each morning, spent hours bestowing favors, made appearances at football games, banquets, parades and public meetings. Despite his age and ailments, he still managed the mellow eloquence and the matchless gall which had made him the darling of the Boston streets. Though his principal opponents were Irishmen like himself, he spoke as though he were a protector of the people crusading against the Boston Brahmins...
Boston's anti-Curley Democrats and Republicans had refused to form a coalition. The noisiest of them was young (38), tough Democratic Candidate Patrick J. Sonny McDonough who had a lot of tricks from Curley's book. He was tearing through the streets like a wild man, handing out free combs to the ladies and green address books to the men, singing Galway Bay and reciting Curley's sins at the top of his lungs. Another Democrat (John B. Hynes), a Republican and a Progressive were also clacking away at Curley's sins...
None of this guaranteed victory to James Michael Curley. The old man liked it better when the ring was crowded; there was a choice of targets, and his opponents might knock each other out instead of him. Curley might yet be around to horrify Boston's reformers for another term...