Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor.
After Lewis had decreed a strike of 53,000 miners in the soft-coal fields, after the President had made two mild, well-mannered pleas for peace, Lewis summoned newsmen to the elegant boardroom of the United Mine Workers to hear his great defiance.
As the school year 1934-35 neared its close, PBH sent the Corporation an ultimatum; the commuters were to be ejected at the end of the year. With the threat of a lockout hanging over their heads, the Corporation officials gave in $35,000 was discovered somewhere despite previous pleas...
After all of TIME'S and the U.S. public's pleas for centralization of defense management, isn't establishment of Supply Priorities & Allocations Board big enough news without splashing the photographs of the blonde secretaries of Mr. Nelson and Mr. Henderson over p. 11 of TIME, Sept...
Almat, meanwhile, was torn by internal bickering, indecision, by pleas of President Oosenay for intervention by the King of Sweden. Leader of Almat's peace party was a Senator Speeler ("I condemn this display of force by our foolhardy Government at this critical juncture. . . . It is as though we...