Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Slicker. In Manhattan, a runaway horse raced 20 blocks, pausing only for red lights...
...right to vote in Democratic primaries. Five thousand of Atlanta's colored citizens hopefully registered. But none of them voted. White election officials told them, "This primary is for white voters only." Last week, anticipating next September's city primary, Atlanta politicians thought they saw a slicker way around the Supreme Court decision...
...advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota's votes listen to his tireless speechmaking with stony faces. They regard him as a city slicker backed by city slickers...
From his home at swank Edgewater Beach Hotel, Candidate Courtney eyed Illinois's rural downstate vote, mapped a campaign that would emphasize his longtime feuding with that old city slicker, Mayor Ed Kelly. There were two minor flaws in this bid for the farm vote. First, Tom Courtney is no bumpkin himself, but the son of a Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced...
...chunk of the cheap-car market. He has never regained it. From then on Edsel's influence caused the Ford Co. to cater to the public. Edsel established the styling division-Fords had been designed by Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. up till then-made Fords slicker, more eye-pleasing. He launched the Zephyr and the luxurious Lincoln-Continental. With his death (TIME, June 7) all this was bound to change. The dropping of the three Ford men showed how far the change has gone. They were the last of the tight little group Edsel had formed...