Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slate...
After one futile effort at reconciliation, the Fourth Termers organized their own party, denounced the opposition as "Republicans" and "evil men," and went on to name their own rival slate of delegates to the national convention...
...Governor, whose own slate won the Republican primary by 5-to-1 majorities, had no ax to grind. The facts were enough. In industrial New Jersey, where even the busiest war worker could find some time to vote during the 13-hour poll day, they straggled into the polls at the rate of six an hour. Nowhere except in Frank Hague's well-regimented Hudson County did the vote exceed 15% of the registration, either Democratic or Republican...
...declared, but Washingtonians know that Bob Hannegan can and does see the President whenever he wants, through the White House back door. Hannegan then devoted two-thirds of his speech to an assault on New York's Governor Thomas Dewey ("who copies down the answers on his little slate after the examination is all over"). In Collier's, Alben Barkley, sublimely oblivious of his dramatic break with the President, used 3,000 words to say why he, too, is for Term...
...women's services. For dress, Marine Women's Reserve Officers (left) will wear a neat white Palm Beach suit. Enlisted WACs (center) will wear a khaki tropical outfit similar to their officers'. An innovation: the garrison cap by Hatter Knox. WAVES and Spars (right) will wear slate-grey seersucker, instead of last year's blue cotton gabardine, which ran when washed. A feature: the fitted jacket with four pockets, one real, three false...