Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After her first year of adventure, the Saturday Evening Post few weeks ago published the exultant story she found time to write. "No alarm clocks, no boss, no schedules . . . plenty of time just to relax and feel the ship under you. Time to stroll along the white sand, hunting wild asparagus. You can dawdle as long as you wish, watching the sou'easter that holds you in harbor...
...Sternly rebuked was Ambassador John Cudahy, for suggesting that Great Britain relax her blockade, let the U. S. feed Hitler's Europe (see col. 3). Less pointed, but clear, was the rebuke administered to Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt, who returned last month with words of comfort for the tottery Pétain regime (see p. 27). Mr. Roosevelt's trusted Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau last week indicated that Hitler's France can expect no comfort from the U. S. More for emphasis than as a practical consideration, Mr. Morgenthau went...
...Invited the British to relax their blockade, so that the U. S. could feed the population of German-occupied areas. "Their [the Belgians'] situation is very, very serious. . . . Present supplies, with severe rationing . . . will last until September 1, or at best early October. If you gentlemen think the Continent is a howling hell now, what do you think it will be this winter...
...with a gracious Gallic gesture, France established in the famed old Palace of Fontainebleau near Paris the only school ever created by one nation for the exclusive benefit of another. There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes and poke mild fun at Rosa Bonheur's bull on its pedestal in the village square...
When Lenox Riley Lohr took over the presidency of NBC four years ago, he abolished the job of executive vice president, gathered the management reins tightly in his fists. Not until January 1939 did he relax his grip. Then into the recreated executive vice-presidency went shrewd, softspoken, Georgia-born Niles Trammell, longtime head of NBC's Central Division (headquarters: Chicago). Last week Trammell stepped into the shoes vacated by Lohr when he resigned last month to become president of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry...