Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
...gang of 250 stonesetters, carvers, riggers, glassworkers and structural iron men on the job were putting 27,000 cubic ft. of Georgia marble and 6,000 sq. ft. of Maine slate into fixing up the walls and the leaky roof. They had reinforced the wooden interior beams, which were starting to rot, replaced the stone crosses set atop the spires in 1888. A $25,000 new rose window was being fashioned in Boston. Bronze main doors will replace the "temporary" wooden ones-which have stood for 70 years...
...blast pressure, transmitted through 150 feet of almost incompressible water, crushed the coral on the lagoon floor, turning the color of the water from slate-blue to turquoise...
...U.F.W.A.'s 42,000 membership, Party-liners and hangers-on were well enough entrenched by last month's convention to run the locals in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. With that core of sure-fire delegates they had rammed through their own slate of officers, headed by Secretary-Treasurer Max Perlow, long-time veteran of New York Communist-front organizations...
...should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually has in this supposedly representative body. He should realize that each Council, through a complicated procedural device, may control the selection of a slate from which 60 per cent of the succeeding Council is chosen. And he should know that this 60 per cent will arbitrarily select the remaining members of the new Council, in the manner of many exclusive organizations that make no pretense of representation and do not label themselves a "Student...