Word: spadework
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...insiders in Washington last week had the impression that Walter Reuther had done very well indeed. According to these dopesters, Mr. Reuther had done his real spadework before he got any publicity. Reason for this conclusion was a certain similarity between Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen's own, earlier plan to have automakers manufacture aircraft parts with new tools in both new and old plants, and Mr. Reuther's more vaulting proposal to have them also use old plants, tools, machinists. It was known that Big Bill Knudsen had visited his old stamping grounds in Detroit in October...
...willing to accept the Republican nomination for the Presidency, but no one had figured out how to start him off.* With no party backing, he was a rootless flower in the political garden. Then, in Wall Street, an amateur political gardener announced he would do the necessary spadework...
After Japanese newspapers had done the spadework Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, addressing the foreign press with a practiced to-whom-it-may-concern air, remarked: "With the South Seas region, and especially The Netherlands Indies, Japan is economically bound by an intimate relationship of mutuality in ministering to one another's needs. . . . The Japanese Government cannot but be deeply concerned over any development accompanying the aggravation of the war in Europe that may affect the status quo of The Netherlands Indies...
...Packinghouses, utilities, lumbering, shoes, aircraft, business offices. In these and many another, the same story generally holds good: C. I. O. in its first burst of organization in 1936-37 did the spadework; A. F. of L. came in later, organizing the same industries and even the same shops where C. I. O. had won Labor's first important gains...
...August, Franklin Roosevelt pointedly omitted to thank the members for their 229 days of work. They had killed his Supreme Court bill. They had left undone many things he thought they ought to have done. He called them back for a special session in November. Except for some legislative spadework accomplished in committee, the 37-day special session was a farce. The third session, which began on January 3, and ran 154 days until one sultry evening last week, was the most productive period of the 75th Congress. As the end approached, Franklin Roosevelt felt kindly enough toward the members...