Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Average Golfer shoots 85 to 100; is tickled pink if he pars two or three holes in an afternoon; he is the mainstay of all golf (Continued on p. 8) clubs and courses; he is generally a sucker for some professional, and without his support the professional golfer would disappear like the famous snowball in Hades...
Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. WPA's head man, well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich...
...Snow Hill, the patrician estate of socialite J. W. Y. Martin outside Baltimore, last week hawkers peddled rubber horses, balloons, trinkets. Three-card monte games flourished on the lawn in front of the pink colonial mansion. Bookmakers Saratoga Joe, Honest Dan and three-score of their colleagues, forbidden to ply their trade this year, milled around in the crowd, furtively held up their odds on inconspicuous little pasteboard cards. It was the day of the Maryland Hunt Cup race and 15,000 of the Eastern Seaboard's horsy folk, arriving by train, plane, auto and old-fashioned buggy, gathered...
Thus was an indelible Red label pasted on the chief pressure group for bigger WPA appropriations. It immediately put WPAdministrator Francis ("Pink") Harrington on the hottest spot he has been on since he succeeded Harry Hopkins. There was talk in the committee of proposing that no WPA money be paid to any Alliance members unless Colonel Harrington terminates his friendly relations with Alliance leaders. Colonel Harrington coolly retorted that he had noted nothing subversive about the Alliance. "I see no objection," said he, "to having a spokesman for workers discuss wages, hours and working conditions with their superiors...
...Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...