Word: straightenings
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After the Jolt, Yosuke Matsuoka quickly rebounded, confident that he was the man to straighten things out. He has not felt many twinges of modesty in his 60 years. Urbane, roly-poly, positive as an electric shock, with a flair for guessing what others are thinking and hiding what he is, Yosuke Matsuoka is ideally suited to ride the second biggest saddle in a near-totalitarian regime. In his own person he symbolizes the collapse of the ideal of collective security: it was he who, with an unlit cigar clenched between his teeth, imperiously beckoned to the Japanese delegates...
...intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once carried his loving serpents he has scooped the black sand, richly loaded with titanium. It will be tested in Europe. Negresses will use it to straighten their hair...
...every ton of soft coal) has been spent or appropriated for its administration, and virtually no practical results have followed. Another $1,886,963 of coal-tax collections goes into the U. S. Treasury. Although many a mine-union leader (and a few producers) hopes the price schedules will straighten the industry out, even they are anything but confident. To the Supreme Court, Able Constitutionalist Jackson called the act "well within the Federal power," but said, "I don't know whether it is ever going to work." Even if it survives the Court and starts to work by fall...
...Gluecks' next step was to examine the records of boys who reformed, pick out their prevailing characteristics. They found that boys with more intelligence and a more favorable home environment were most likely to straighten out. Eventually they found that the most reliable signs were: 1) parents' nationality and religion, 2) the age at which a boy committed his first offense. Most likely to reform, say the Gluecks, is a boy who did not misbehave until he was 13 and is the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland or Lithuania. Least likely is a boy who misbehaved...
...year-old Chairman Woolley had given way to a tightlipped, hardboiled, 58-year-old chairman, Henry M. Reed, who was given the green light by Radiator's bankers (J. P. Morgan & Co.), told to straighten out its rambling financial structure. One of Reed's first moves was to purge $8,730,703 of German and Italian "assets" from the company's consolidated accounts...