Word: slaps
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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...
...kind of man who invites a slap on the back and a friendly 'Hi, Pandit' (which, according to Geoffrey Gorer, a studious misinterpreter of U.S. folkways, is the only basis on which Americans really like anybody...
...above these stand Yale's six senior societies-Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Wolf's Head, and Elihu-whose new members are picked each year when the junior class lines up on Tap Day in Branford College Court, waiting for the slap on the back from some senior member...
...Royal Military Academy, saw service in France during World War I, won the rank of major; after the war, became a boilermaker; eventually headed the great British engineering firm of Ransomes & Rapier, Ltd. As the Labor government's Minister of Works (1950-51), he got the nickname of "Slap and Tickle Dick" because he told go-slow workers on the Festival of Britain "Funway" that everybody liked a "bit of slap and tickle...