Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When F.D.R. got ready to fire Dean Acheson, then Under Secretary of the Treasury and now Under Secretary of State, he called him "a lightweight." He always referred to Montagu Norman, bearded, longtime Governor of the Bank of England, as "Old Pink-Whiskers...
...members of the U.S. political Left were impressed by the gleaming pink façade of Henry Wallace's hybrid Progressive Citizens of America (TIME, Jan. 6). In Washington last week 150-odd intellectuals, labor leaders and New Deal disciples got together to form a new organization of their own. They had been called together by the Union for Democratic Action, a militant pressure group of ardent "liberals...
...couple of weeks, and many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
...Minister Emanuel Shin-well issued an immediate denial, announced plans for a simple ceremony in the un-paneled, unheated Ministry headquarters, which cannot hold more than 50 people. A single toast would be proposed while Shinwell presented a leather-bound copy of the Coal Industry Nationalization Act to plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will run the mines as National Coal Board Chairman. Afterward Lord Hyndley, 63, would climb to the roof of his Berkeley Square office building and hoist the Coal Board's new flag (royal blue with "NCB" in white block letters...
...moved to Port-au-Prince for his health, started Haiti's first art school three years ago, just to make himself useful. As soon as his Centre d'Art opened its doors, self-taught painters came crowding happily in for instruction. Peters stared at their pink, purple, pale green and yellow pictures of murders and bouquets (mostly painted with furniture enamel on scraps of cardboard), decided the best he could do for such talented pupils was to supply them with materials and let them paint...