Word: mellowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's "hold-the-line" order last week stiffened the spine of the oldest (56 years), mellowest independent Federal agency with regulatory powers. After ten months of needling from OPA, the Interstate Commerce Commission rescinded for the rest of 1943 the 4.8% freight-rate increase that it had granted the railroads last year. That increase had been granted to the railroads to ease their fiscal pain when they granted a 10% wage increase to railroad labor...
Tall, lean, balding Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti) is not the silky-slickest violinist in the world (Jascha Heifetz is), nor the velvety-mellowest (Fritz Kreisler is). But for flawless taste and all-round performance, Fiddler Szigeti gets the votes of most critics, fiddlers, composers, fastidious concert-fanciers. The 15 years, on & off, that Szigeti has fiddled in the U. S. have given him a taste for such U. S. diversions as listening to swing and the radio. Last week radio "jaywalkers"-as he calls dial-twiddlers-had a chance to hear Szigeti...