Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually John Lewis, having shown again that he can threaten the nation with cold homes and idle blast furnaces by a casual shake of his shaggy mane, was merely content to rest on his laurels for a while. The public interest coincided with his own because...
...afternoon last week, a grey, stocky major general strode briskly along the eighth-floor corridor of Montgomery Ward & Co.'s shining white Chicago store. He opened a door, smiled broadly, and walked in with outstretched hand. Sewell Lee Avery beamed back, rose to shake hands. Said General David McCoach Jr. to the chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co.: on the order of Secretary of War Patterson, the Army was turning the property back to its owners...
...Politicians. Korea today has al most no politics, and legions of politicians. Seventy-odd parties stepped up to be counted at General Hodge's request. The best guess is that they will shake down to three: 1) a "democratic" party, conservative and nationalist; 2) an extreme left-wing party, Communist-dominated ; 3) a middle or pinkish party, claiming a position comparable to Labor's in Britain...
Young Henry Ford, barely settled in his new chair as president, gave his billion dollar empire a shaking that rattled its teeth. The first shake tumbled Harry Ben nett out of power...
...Topside Shake-Up. But for the accident of Franklin Roosevelt's death, Byrnes would now be a lawyer in Spartanburg, S.C. (pop. 32,249). He had been passed over for the Vice Presidency at Chicago; he had been passed over again for Secretary of State when Ed Stettinius got the job. Shortly after Yalta, tired and worn out, disgusted and fed up, Byrnes quit as War Mobilizer. But on the second day of the Truman Administration he was back at the White House, conferring with the man whom he had known in the Senate. He lay low during...