Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson's ability to "sock" a balky industry "right on the nose" and get the kind of trade code he wants was demonstrated in Washington earlier in the week. For three days at NRA hearings, U. S. shipbuilders and their employes tussled and fought over a code. The employers would take nothing less than a 40-hour week; the men stood out for 30 hours. At stake was the Navy's vast building program for which first bids were opened last week. With no compromise in sight, General Johnson called in both sides, ordered them to agree...
...Sock on the Nose...
Administrator Johnson flew back to Cleveland, stopped there for some lamb chops and beer. Asked a newshawk: "What will happen to objectors who won't go along with this new code?" Wiping suds from his lips. General Johnson snapped: "They'll get a sock right on the nose...
...President Roosevelt's thesis across. For several days the British dominions, all far more radical than the Mother Country, had been warming up to the special Roosevelt brand of "price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores of subjects left which the Conference could discuss. The Frenchman admitted that there were. Japan's frail old Viscount Ishii voiced his shrill support of Mr. Hull...
...play in the palace. Said King Carol: "There's one thing you fellows must understand. If any of you let Michael hit you without giving him a good hiding, you can look for serious trouble with me." Few days later Prince Michael turned up with a badly-bunged nose. Next day. while Carol of Rumania inspected a machine gun factory at Cluj, a General suddenly bawled an order with a voice like a bomb. The shout scared a soldier. The soldier twitched his fingers. His fingers jerked the trigger of a machine...