Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor, already off on another tack, hoped that Davis would adopt a more liberal attitude than Vinson's in connection with "fringe" awards, i.e., increases for night-shift differentials, reclassifications, etc., which do not affect basic wage rates. This issue, now vital to the unions, was sizzling on Davis' desk before he had a chance to sit down...
...stockholders of Atlas Tack Corp. are no longer surprised at anything...
...Wallacemen now realized that they could never get Henry confirmed as a full successor to Jesse Jones, i.e., both as Commerce Secretary and as dispenser of RFC's billions. They adopted a new tack: first pass Senator George's "bill of divorcement" dividing the two jobs, then get Henry in as Commerce Secretary only. This halfway admission of defeat merely strengthened the determination of anti-Wallacemen to reject him immediately and completely, for both jobs...
Thus the U.S., starting its fourth year of war, was launched on a new tack in liberated Europe: the doctrine of "abstention" initiated two weeks ago by the U.S. refusal to guarantee Poland's boundaries. However well and democratically meant, however high the motives behind the policy, it was a shot in the arm for U.S. isolationism; it was also a bare-knuckle blow to Britain...
...came from Democrats. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey was suddenly not as enthusiastic about the nominations as he had been. Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney asked, incredulously, whether the Senate would "vote blindly about so important a matter. . . ." Connecticut's Francis Maloney took another tack: "There may not be any brighter or better men than these. On the other hand, there might...