Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubel Blakley and Dinah Washington, the comical acrobatics of Hampton and pianist Milton Buckner, and the valiant efforts of eight Boston Symphony violinists kept the evening from being a dull one. Musically, however, the band displayed merely the polish and intonation of any well-rehearsed name band and its sole distinctive feature was a seven-man brass section which could probably out blow even the Basic of pre-war days...
Like almost everybody else, Vannevar Bush thinks of himself as essentially a man of peace. He regards himself as working at a disagreeable but necessary assignment. He refuses to be drawn into discussions as to the possibilities of OSRD inventions for the peace to come. OSRD's sole job, he considers, is to shorten the war. But one thing he would like to see continued after the war-something like OSRD. Says he, hammering his desk with his fist: "If we had been on our toes in war technology ten years ago, we would probably not have had this...
...William Green hurried into the White House. The President, flanked by Madame Frances Perkins, had a little suggestion to make. For ten years, Mr. Green's A.F. of L. had been the sole U.S. labor representative at the International Labor Organization. Next month's I.L.O. session at Philadelphia, with its weighty postwar agenda, might well be a most momentous meeting. Why not give C.I.O. a half interest in U.S. labor's one international vote...
Stiffly, William Green left the White House. Dutifully, he polled his Executive Committee, wrote to the President with "deep regret" that his A.F. of L. would either: 1) continue to be U.S. labor's sole and exclusive spokesman, or 2) resign from I.L.O...
...Ontario's Legislature last week, Attorney General Leslie Blackwell introduced a bill, certain of passage, which will make Papa Dionne sole guardian of his wealthy ($50,000 a year income, plus a six-figure reserve), renowned Quintuplets.* Ontario courts henceforth will supervise only their contracts (pictures, soap, etc.). Otherwise, from July 1 on, Oliva Dionne will have full authority over all his children...