Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispense this capsule advice, Producer Irving Mansfield (Talent Scouts') engaged Critic Clifton Fadiman as moderator, and Comic Abe Burrows and Playwright-Director George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...
...hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension?" The union rested its case...
Furthermore, said Nathan, the workers had earned a raise: "The buying power of hourly rates of pay ... in the steel industry increased one-seventh between 1939 and 1949, whereas productivity per man-hour rose by 50% ... In the short run, changes in productivity are more affected by changes in ... labor skill than by technology." (Another labor witness later conceded that "it is almost impossible to separate the contributions made by the worker, the machine, or management to increased productivity...
...having an Indian for U.S. President: "Yes. It would take a good thinking man because some man you will think always a good fellow everywhere." On the weather: "The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy...
...Weekly to its Sunday edition (circ. 255,002), the Cincinnati Enquirer assigned a task force of staffers to whip up equally lurid blurbs. When her turn came, Columnist Mildred Miller offered readers an enticing sample of the Weekly's wares-stories about female chastity ("Voltaire has declared [it] man's greatest invention"), birth control ("Motherhood in many cases is a wrong against society"), and religion ("After 2,000 years of religious teachings our jails are crowded beyond capacity...