Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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You couldn't call Pee Wee absent minded, but he's the only man I know who consistently pays a nickel to get out of the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Subway.
Minor Statesman Connally, and those in the Administration who had advised him into timidity, were wrong. They had anticipated heavy opposition from onetime isolationists, realizing no more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities...
For Moral Purification. Two days later Matthews talked with Count Carlo Sforza, newly landed in Italy after 16 years of exile by Fascists, heard the white-bearded onetime (1920-21) Foreign Minister declare a need for a "moral purification [of] the whole Italian atmosphere." Said Sforza: "What is dangerous and...
Nevertheless, Beichman was right. A day after denying that such organized hoodlumism existed in Boston, Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks. He appointed a committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews to advise him on the problem. And when PM gleefully referred to Boston as a city "where...
On Monopoly. The attitude of many a cartel-minded British bigwig, Benton reported, was epitomized by Lord McGowan, chairman of the potent Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a director of General Motors, who said naively: "I see no hope for collaboration between British and American business unless the U.S. repeals...