Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale Law Journal. From 1933 to 1937 in the New York Legislature, he sponsored many of Tom Dewey's criminal-reform bills. These men will plan the grand strategy of the Dewey campaign. Other advisers, concerned with more detailed and technical matters, include the Governor's smooth, husky executive secretary, Paul Lockwood; his press manager, James C. Hagerty,* onetime New York Timesman; Hickman Powell, ex-expert New York Herald Tribune reporter; his Banking Superintendent, Elliott V. Bell, and Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is also Manhattan G.O.P. leader. Last week, to the delight of Democrats...
Navy witnesses, to a man, stood to their battle stations: the middle of the war was no time to make such a change. In fact, they said, harmony in the top commands was so smooth that the Navy did not want to risk rocking the boat even by talking about it. As for postwar unification, the Navy's answer was a discreet "Well, maybe...
Once a successful advertising man, the jut-jawed, smooth-talking head of OPA shocked many a U.S. businessman by asserting in a speech, at Yale University: "The role of government must be greatly reduced after the war. . . . But . . . there is far too easy an assumption on the part of many that we have only to strip off controls and we'll go right back to all-out peacetime operations without a hitch. There are two things wrong with that view. It won't be easy-and we can't go back...
Just before dark, the sleek, fast B-26 Marauder circled her English air base and slipped in to a smooth landing. Technical Sergeant William L. Stuart, a taciturn, red-haired Texan, heaved an eloquent sigh, rubbed his grease-stained hands together, got out his tools and prepared to go to work...
These are great days: bets on the invasion date have run up sizable pools and hard-earned liberty is not-so-patiently awaited. Remember, you learn about smooth rolls and pay accounts not to make 99.44 but to find the pennies and dollars that go astray in the field. Hasta Luego...