Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given out in OPA and WPB. With but few exceptions, top places in these agencies were assigned on a non-political basis. State Democratic leaders choked with wrath when they found regional OPA and WPB offices headed by and staffed with Republicans. This political unorthodoxy extended even to the Solid South: the OPA regional rationing officer (eight States) is Georgia's G.O.P. national committeeman ; Georgia's OPAdministrator campaigned for Willkie in 1940. Said a prominent Missouri Democrat: "Those bureaus [are] all full of Republicans and mugwumps and carpetbaggers, fellows we never heard of before...
...create a new base against the Axis powers." Axis broadcasts spread a report that Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...
Though public acclaim made it expedient for the parties thus to go on record, it was by no means certain that the sweeping proposals of the plan would become law. Britain was still leftish-talking, solid-acting Britain. Parliament was still committee-loving, compromise-loving Parliament. Conservatives and the business community still wanted to know where the money was coming from. Labor officials thought "the detailed proposals must necessarily be subject to further scrutiny." And the powerful National Association of Insurance Committees dug in and said that the general situation regarding Beveridge "will be vigilantly watched...
...months Winston Churchill and his advisers had sifted through the eligible names without turning up the right man. No wonder. Though the man for the job might be Tory, Liberal or Labor, he had to be of solid family, preferably aristocratic, and immensely able. More important, he had to be of liberal, humanitarian instincts and record, yet willing and able to act with a rough, uncompromising hand in any emergency and in all circumstances...
...famed Radio Church of God from its Washington, D.C., tabernacle to Manhattan "to open a second front against the Satanic kingdom." For singing the devil and hell out of a town, Elder Michaux-self-styled "General of the International Forces of Right against Wrong"-has at least one solid endorsement: successive police chiefs in Washington have declared his preaching reduces crime...