Word: placidness
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This was a placid gathering. The biggest issue that might have thrown it into turmoil was deferred when 65-year-old Phil Murray, recovered from an almost fatal illness, agreed to carry on as C.I.O. president. He was unanimously re-elected for his twelfth term. Nominating Murray, bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Clothing Workers, called him "not only a labor leader but a leader of mankind." To take some of the load off Murray, Organization Director Allan Haywood was named to the new position of executive vice president...
Four games are slated for each day of the tournament, with the consolation and championship finals set for December 29. The tournament will be the only major event of its kind in the East since the Lake Placid Club Invitational was abandoned...
...been a Yugoslav immigrant boy at 14, a newspaper loader, a soldier, a textile worker, a longshoreman. When he moved in 1936 to a century-old farmhouse and 40 acres of land in New Jersey's stony, wooded Hunterdon County hills, he took to the placid rural life with something akin to jubilance. "Louis," nearby residents took to saying, "is a good neighbor-none better...
test Run. Last week, in a run through the Lake Washington ship canal and across placid Lake Union, Inventor Ross put on a demonstration of his "underwater radar" that left Navy sonar experts stuttering with excitement. On his cathode-ray screen the observers could easily locate a submerged steel drum 1,200 ft. away, a garbage can at 900 ft., sand bars, dock pilings, fish nets and ropes...
President Truman circled the exhibit, inspected five bird paintings, drew up short before a placid brown & white bull. He was never aware, said Harry Truman pleasantly, that Audubon ever painted such a beast...