Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommend the United States seaman who, in the recent battle in the Barents Sea between a Russia-bound convoy and the Germans, having been torpedoed, was riding astride a capsized lifeboat, waving his arms as the other ships in the convoy passed him, and shouting "Hi-Yo Silver...
...Democratic Party not only had trouble at the top (see p. 14); it faced a pressing down-the-line problem: finding snug berths for party members defeated in November. President Roosevelt started the ball rolling by naming Oklahoma's silver-tongued Senator Josh Lee, who had performed many a New Deal chore, to the Civil Aeronautics Board. It mattered little whether Mr. Lee knows much about aviation ; the rules of the game made him eligible for an early good...
...only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...evils of Wall Street. The pattern of war finance and the civilian economy show the revolt brought to its logical conclusion. The farm bloc ganged up with the labor bloc to smash Henry Morgenthau's dreamboat of a withholding tax. The farm bloc, ganging up with the Silver States, kept the absurd silver legislation on the books. And the farm bloc made hash of inflation control. Though wholesale prices during the year rose only by about 10%, farm prices skyrocketed...
...Crawford once said no businessman can make a speech because the field "has been abandoned to crackpots, reformers, politicians, nonproductive drones who live on our backs and sway public opinion by silver-tongued fireside bunk." But last week in Manhattan Businessman Crawford ate his earlier words in his maiden speech as N.A.M. president. Said...