Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the Autobiography, smalltown Dr. Williams and Poet Williams with his arty New York friends never got in each other's way. The doctor insists that he fed raw material to the writer, but the proof is plain that the writer (yanking out his typewriter to slap down a few sentences before the doctor's phone rang again) never got the material into satisfying shape. Williams' first books were privately printed, sold not at all and were usually bought up by Writer Williams with the money Dr. Williams passed him. A nonintellectual, he says, he made...
...Decided to slap taxes on 6,000 building and loan associations, 600 mutual savings banks and a number of farmers' cooperatives, which have so far gone taxfree. Estimated gain in revenue: $145 million...
Amiable Negotiator Stokes, whose nickname is "Slap & Tickle Dick," was not tickled. He snapped: "I am not a great believer in bargaining." Still, Mediator Harriman persevered. He saw the young Shah, who is reasonable but ineffectual. The Shah himself tried to conciliate Mossadeq, who finally blew up, said: "Do you want me to resign?" There it was; the Shah had to back down. The fact was that the oil dispute, which stretched back 20 years, had become for Iranians a cause beyond common sense. They desperately needed British technicians, and they could not possibly get along without British marketing...
Writing in the International Teamster, President Daniel J. Tobin took a slap at high-priced labor leaders. The pay should be good, said Tobin, "but I don't believe that we should follow the millionaire class ... In our last convention I refused to be a candidate for office if they increased my salary from $30,000 to $50,000 per year...
...Washington, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed refused bail to Trustees Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Dashiell (The Thin Man) Hammett and W. Alphaeus Hunton while they appealed from convictions for contempt of court. Justice Reed went a step further. He ruled that the U.S. has a perfect right to slap them behind bars for refusing to tell where they got about $450,000 which has been posted as bail for Commies in the past three years...