Word: shakedowns
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...next two days the President worked hard and long. Decisions came out: a shakedown in the State Department, a swift end to Lend-Lease, authority for the War Labor Board to relax wage controls (Little Steel was now a broken yardstick...
...third week in office, President Truman no longer worked under the concentrated light which had shone on him for a fortnight. Some of the nation's floodlights had shifted to San Francisco. Besides, the novelty of having a new President had begun to wane. The shakedown cruise was over, and Harry Truman, no longer able to rely on the doctrine of "carrying on," now had to do a little steering on his own account...
...afternoon. The Ehrmantrauts served coffee all night and what food was in the house. Some of their furniture got well wrecked and how much do you think was contributed when a hat was passed around? Believe it or not, these rescued wayfarers were so frozen up that the total shakedown reached the grand sum of $27.50. The average was less than 20? each. I wonder what the Ehrmantrauts think now about the human race...
Except in top command jobs, regulars among the Navy's personnel are now far outnumbered. "When our big new warships put to sea for a shakedown, as much as 87% of their crews have never been to sea before. Of the 2,981,365 persons in the Navy at the close of the 1944 fiscal year, 88% were schoolboys, farmers, or businessmen at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack...
...crusades, "expo-ZAYS" and threats, the wonder was that anyone had wasted a bullet on Kasherman. He was a man of thin face and slickly pompadoured black hair, a police station hanger-on, petty racketeer and blackmailer, who once did a two-year penitentiary stretch for a $25 shakedown of a whoremistress. His Public Press was a newspaper only by the utmost professional courtesy: it came out intermittently, whenever Kasherman could find someone to smear and someone to pay him for it; it was full of black-inked diatribes against the cops, the mayor and the gangsters, and promises...