Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texan in every respect, and so much for that. Your appellation of Connally as a "political gas-burner" (TIME, Oct. 4) and "minor statesman" (Oct. 25) from Texas was no surprise. It was merely putting the thoughts of a number of people into words...
...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. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were...
...Westbrook Junior College and Bradford Junior College during the coming months, and the Glee Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society for several performances in the spring, climaxed by the annual Pension Fund Concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky on April 30. Bach's B Minor Mass will be the major work presented by the chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Chairman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton immediately drew for his House Ways & Means Committee a heartrending picture of the Administration straining every nerve to make every penny count. Unimpressed, the Committee came up at week's end with several minor amendments which would add a minuscule $1 to $1.5 billion to Federal revenue...
...running the world's biggest cinema company. In the comparable Swebilius fiscal year, ending Nov. 30, 1941, Gus Swebilius paid himself $631,809. In the next twelvemonth Mayer increased his lead with a gross take of $949,765, but Swebilius was still second, with $499,148. (After taxes, minor tycoon Swebilius will have not more than $85,000 of his 1942 take...