Word: peterkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans. New York's freshman Senator Irving Ives, a longtime student of labor relations, proposed that House and Senate set up a joint committee to confer with management and union leaders and "work out a program helpful to everyone." The legislative hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour...
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...
Pace, W. A.; Parrott, L. M., Jr.; Peabody, J. G.; Peterkin, J. E.; Pettingell, W. H.; Pierce, J. B., Jr.; Pink, J. W., Jr.; Purdy, E. R. Pyle...
...what good came of it at last?", Quoth little Peterkin...
Many a U.S. Peterkin wondered last week whether the 3? a ton had been worth such a costly battle. But with both sides agreeing to accept the Board's terms, and peace in soft coal assured until April 1943, Mediator William H. Davis ejaculated: "Thank God it is settled...