Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NLRB "of interfering with the rights of their employes," that Consumers Power, after signing a contract with C. I. O., launched a "determined antiC. I. O. offensive" which "continued unrelentingly right up to the day the Republicans picked Mr. Willkie, when, by coincidence, the management suddenly began acting with sweet reasonableness...
Although the patrician Boston Symphony, one of the world's three or four greatest orchestras, sounds sweet to most U. S. citizens, it grates on the ears of James Caesar Petrillo, new boss of the American Federation of Musicians. For the Boston Symphony is the only big nonunion orchestra in the U. S. Because of the A. F. of M. hold on the radio chains, the Boston Symphony has not broadcast in more than a year. Last fortnight tough Boss Petrillo forbade RCA Victor to make any more Boston Symphony recordings. "They're through," explained Mr. Petrillo...
...laymen led the field in the election for moderator: a stanch New Dealer, 71-year-old ex-Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, and a 35-year-old Maine Republican, Ronald Bridges, brother of New Hampshire's Senator H. Styles Bridges. Sweet won by 16 votes. Slight, precise Congregationalist Sweet retired from a thriving brokerage business in Denver in 1920, "to give my full time to politics and religion," believes in the "application of the Christian religion to social and economic life...
...Congressional Record's 108 pages was spread honey-sweet praise for retiring Democratic National Committee Chairman and Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful for a rescuing Colonel Blimp. "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel...