Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darling of reform-minded women voters. In the last two years Ramspeck-sponsored bills have put some 500,000 Federal employes under civil service. As ranking Democratic member of the Labor Committee, liberal Bob Ramspeck helped carry the ball for the Wagner and Wage & Hour Acts. His only slip: this spring he championed the hapless Pensions-for-Congress bill. Faced with public revolt, Congress changed its mind. Ramspeck relented but argued solidly that the bill was "misunderstood," that Congressmen should be pensioned off the same as other Federal employes...
...Christian tradition ... in the handling of social, economic and civic problems now and in the critical post-war period. We are all profoundly impressed with the increasing danger that in our generation the Christian heritage, in which we all share, may be lost and that our country may increasingly slip into accepting pagan standards and ideals...
There is going to be a second front-a land front-against Germany in western Europe. Barring a slip, that fact became certain last week. The only question was: When? Last week the answer to that question, too, became more definite...
...York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, is known as "The Hiking Bishop," from his rooted custom of footsloggirig from parish to parish with staff and cap in hand. He too took a strong stand for social reform last week. Said he: "When peace comes and war weariness sets in we may slip back into the old ways. If that happens there would follow such widespread and angry discontent that revolution might follow. . . . Service for all...is rapidly being substituted for private interests and personal gain...
...Nazis' Iowa-born Fred Kaltenbach, a Berlin standby, referred thrice last week to "The Axis powers or Japan"-a designing slip, part of the elaborately subtle campaign of insinuation that a worried Hitler is open to a deal against his Far Eastern partner...