Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved a proposal that a study be made of establishing more industrial (vertical) unions, like U. M. W., within the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L., based on a craft (horizontal) union system, soft-pedaled this vital labor issue at its last convention (TIME...
...addition, the ring sold narcotics, provided monied prisoners with clothing filched from newcomers, even had a strong voice in the granting of paroles. Divided between an Irish and an Italian gang, the hierarchy lived soft in two hospital wards, while men who should have been hospitalized-100 drug addicts, more than 100 venereal cases, 13 insane patients and one man suffering with sleeping sickness-roamed at large through the prison spreading demoralization and infection...
...cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana and take a post-graduate course...
...greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attach...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was to have the job (TIME, Dec. 25). Again Mr. Jones repeated his promises, but by last week Continental Illinois knew that being in Mr. Jones's parlor was like being in the parlor of any other majority stockholder. He would exercise his right -soft speeches or no soft speeches-to name the bank's chairman. So a committee of seven directors waited on Mr. Jones in Washington. Head of the Committee was Col. Albert Arnold Sprague (of Sprague Warner, wholesale groceries) who at one time was head of Chicago's businessmen...