Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointed by Governor Bottolfsen to succeed Idaho's Borah (for eleven months) was solid, taciturn 66-year-old John W. Thomas, banker, Republican wheelhorse, U. S. Senator from 1928 through 1932, when New Dealing James P. Pope defeated...
Fault & Default. Someone besides pranksters or intruding Reds had indeed played a trick on John Lewis. Someone apparently had convinced him that there is in the diffuse U. S. a solid, national, manageable Labor Vote...
Hollywood-hardened children, who like their fantasy lavish and solid, may enjoy the elaborate Technicolored sets (cost: $200,000). They may even take in their stride the skulls, owls, ravens, blazing lightning, flaming forest and crashing trees the producers have got together to scare the daylights out of them. They can scarcely fail to enjoy Shirley Temple's artful childishness or chubby, kinky-haired Johnny Russell as her little brother, Tyltyl...
...firm, Taft & Taft, hung out its shingle in Cincinnati. Later enlarged, the firm is now Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, has six partners. Charley dropped out two years ago when he was elected to the City Council. Taking no criminal or marital cases, the Taft firm steadily built up a solid corporate practice locally (Gruen Watch, Globe-Wernicke, Cincinnati Milling Machine, etc.). Its business base was the management of estates and trusts-especially those of Uncle Charles (d. 1929) and Aunt Annie (d. 1931). Largest asset of these: the Times-Star. To Bob and Charley, Uncle Charles left 1,000 shares each...
...masked the city with the odor of "a billion polecats"), of his own petty larcenies and light vices, of the alley Negroes (he calls them coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character. Chief cause of the comedy: he "was probably the most incompetent man with his hands ever seen on earth...