Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keyserling: I have said, Congressman, that there has been some softening, some very minor softening...
...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...
Shopkeepers and restaurant men clicked their abacuses busily. The price of food climbed hourly until dinner for three at the Eighth Heaven atop the New Asia Hotel cost $33 U.S. Not all could stand the pace. Said one minor government official: "All my family has had to eat for a week is bananas...
...Musician Today." So far as the U.S. public was concerned in the '20s, there were a good many other ways of playing jazz. Paul Whiteman, with his 30-piece band and his smooth arrangements of Tin Pan Alley hit tunes and minor classics (The Song of India), was "King of Jazz," and his music and records were far better known than the small-band New Orleans variety. But after Louis arrived in Manhattan in 1924, and persuaded Fletcher Henderson to let him "open up" on his horn at Broadway's Roseland Ballroom one night, jazz musicians...
These relatively minor points-minor compared with the national welfare strikes and closed shop-illustrate the mess that Congress must untangle in the months ahead. The primary need is for action on the big points, and the sooner the pressure groups and politicians stop name-calling and realize that the best they can hope for is a direction of policy towards compromise, the sooner a workable law will be enacted...