Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was no major conflict, but it was plain that Mussolini's waiting-for-Christmas policy would not work against the British. For anything he takes from them he will have to fight. To their scorn for Italy's passive game, Marshal Badoglio has a pat answer: they also serve who only stand and wait. The Allies thought it splendid of Italy to stay neutral last time until 1915, and then join them instead of the Kaiser. That released several French divisions for the first Battle of the Marne. Waiting again, Italy has again picked a winner...
...Christmas All This and Heaven Too was a bestseller. Warner hands began to pat Warner shoulders. Warner minds began to be obsessed with the idea that they owned another Gone With the Wind. In its heyday Gone With the Wind had been known among other things as GWTW. Discreetly at first, Warner tongues began to refer to All This and Heaven Too as ATAHT. It was one letter longer. The psychological moment had come to turn the valuable property into a movie...
...other side of Labor's street, A. F. of L. President William Green was busy as a bird dog. His busyness: horse trading with the Smith Bill (see col. 2); wooing David Dubinsky's independent garment workers; giving an approving pat to A. F. of L. stagehands...
What made the taxes historic on a second count was that they represented the first real effort by the Roosevelt Administration to arrange the payment of a debt before the money was borrowed. Muley Doughton (as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee) and Mississippi's Pat Harrison (Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket...
...stood at $3,703,000,000. This prospect in itself was nothing new. But, said Mr. Morgenthau, the U. S. Treasury as of last week could borrow only $1,973,000,000 more without cracking the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. In consequence the Secretary, Muley Doughton and Pat Harrison asked Congress to up the limit to $48,000,000,000, set aside the new taxes specifically to pay off the additional debt. Congress pliantly prepared to do so. But Congress well knew that provision for a mere $3,000,000,000 more debt will be just a starter...