Word: sawyerism
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...President is as determined as anyone to keep the budget balanced. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, dressed in dove's clothing and holding out an olive branch to the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS), nevertheless hinted that corporation taxes, if not taxes on big personal incomes, would have...
...National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman Administration would be. But Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer would tell them; he was due to give a speech which President Truman had read and approved...
...street was narrow and Sawyer had to pull up alongside a parked automobile. He glanced inside the car and found himself staring at a revolver...
...follow in the middle of the road had stepped aside. The man behind the pistol remained silent, and Sawyer drove away fast...
What still bafiles Sawyer is why the man in the street, who "was obviously being held up," hadn't reported the robbery to the police...