Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the United Nations' press section made a modest request: would the papers please take the O out of UNO, which was never christened an "Organization?" Manhattan dailies unanimously agreed to make a short headline word even shorter, although the sensitive Sun protested that UN is "merely a negative grunt . . . not half so pleasing to ear or tongue." Even the UNhospitable Daily News, which wants the outfit to get "com pletely out of the United States" (to northwest Mexico), went along. The press seemed willing to give U.N., at least on little things, every break...
...note my friend, the editor of PM, too, has the publisher's complex. If anyone differs, the other fellow must be wrong. So he is just another publisher. If he were a couple of feet shorter, he would be like Roy Howard. If he had a couple of million more, he would be like Ogden Reid, and if he had the gout, he would be like [the New York Daily News's Captain Joe] Patterson, and each of them thinks he is a Joseph Pulitzer...
Between now and then, Russia may have another lucid spell. But the reasonable periods have been getting shorter, the truculent spells more violent...
...order was the failure to stop a week-old strike of New York's tugboat men, who haul in a major share of New York's daily supply of food, coal and fuel oil. The workers had agreed to arbitrate their demand for higher pay and shorter hours; when the operators refused, Mayor O'Dwyer pulled the switch...
...Opposers. The Tories must take a shorter view. It is the talk of London that Winston Churchill, to all effects, is out of the Party leadership. At most, says many a knowing Tory gossip, he will manage to hang on for a brief interim, then hand it over. To whom? There's the rub. The Tory Party today is virtually in the position most Americans thought the Democratic Party was in during Franklin Roosevelt's tenure...