Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Education and Labor Committee was in a bitter and bilious mood. Its members had spent six days investigating Petrillo's practices. They had heard the big men of the record business deplore his record ban. They had listened while the big men of the radio networks denounced his ban on television and his refusal to let FM stations share standard musical broadcasts. But they had been unable to draw forth suggestions for punitive legislation. The big men wanted to negotiate with Petrillo, not demolish him. Somewhat frustrated, the G.O.P. committee members swore that they themselves would reduce Caesar...
...history of the Crimson national and international editorial columns is a strange blend of the popular mood of the day, and the very real individuality of each board. If the former did not lead the Crimson into inconsistencies, the latter certainly did, and for such meandering the editors were occasionally taken to task by older, wiser, and more static journals. But, as the editors in the spring of 1917 replied to a criticism of this kind in the old Boston Transcript: "We could not, for the sake of consistency, maintain a policy which in conscience the majority of the board...
...Ruhr's third successive week of strikes for more food, there were no banners, no picket lines, no disorders. At Duisburg, Mülheim and Dinslaken, 50,000 workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
Actress Buff Cobb, 21, granddaughter of the late Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, sued her second husband for divorce after seven months of marriage. She said that the husband, Actor William Eythe, had hit her a couple of times last fall. Two days later, in a seesawing mood, she called the whole thing...
...audience in Cleveland's Labor Hall was in an ugly mood. The 450 union men had come to hear a debate between two rival candidates for the school board, but their favorite, a union president, had not appeared. As his opponent, a plump, middle-aged matron, stepped to the microphone, the audience began to boo and stamp. They did not know Mrs. Norma Wulff...