Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incredible slip, the Secretary of Labor got her facts mixed on the split between the Federation and John Lewis, erroneously reporting that the ten original C. I. O. unions were "expelled" in 1936. Hair-splitting Mr. Green reminded her that the ten were suspended in 1936, that only nine ever were expelled, and that the unexpelled tenth (David Dubinsky's Garment Workers) is edging back into the Federation. Fanny Perkins further irked Mr. Green by observing that both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. "claim" 4,000,000 members. "We do not 'claim, we report...
...foundation of a thing to be effective," he said, giving his reasons for choosing Lenin as the focus of his attack on Communism. In his view of the Finnish War. "Russia is a big boulder coming down on a pebble; but the pebble was able to slip aside, and now it is dynamiting the houlder...
Shaggy-browed Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicuddy) celebrated his 77th birthday, admitted that he had picked his son Earle, 47, to succeed him as president-manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, hastily covered his slip: "But he'll be wearing long, grey whiskers before then...