Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of its predecessors, the presidential campaign promised to be notable for irresponsible charges and ridiculous statements. Candidate Harry Truman charged that the Republican Party, and thus Candidate Tom Dewey, was the tool of "special interests." Candidate Henry Wallace cried that Candidate Truman was the tool of "the big money or the big brass." Candidate Dewey had not yet said anything, but he had okayed Harold Stassen's accusation that President Truman was trying to set "class against class...
...Manhattan, plowed straight down the Communist furrow, despite the gees and haws of the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president. By overwhelming majorities, the delegates denounced the draft as "part of big business' war against the American people"; condemned the Marshall Plan as a tool of Wall Street; re-elected all their Red-minded officers...
...World Federation of Trade Unions, lambasting a Communist resolution in favor of the W.F.T.U. itself. Deakin's presidency represents British labor's hope of rescuing the W.F.T.U. from Red domination. That hope, Deakin roared, has gone glimmering. He said that the W.F.T.U. was becoming a tool of Soviet foreign policy. The congress boomed approval, the tick tack men flickered like lizards along the wall, and the Communist motion was defeated...
Cyrus Eaton was not cowering in his corner. The charges, he insisted, "can only be characterized as false and malicious. They provide the final proof that the commission has completely become the tool of our Wall Street rivals, already facing anti-trust proceedings, whose business we have steadily been taking away by our honest, but unwelcome, free competition...
...executive of a machine tool company in a small city in Ohio tells us that "several families in this community are in need of domestic help. It is quite possible that some of the young women entering this country could find security in lovely surroundings should they be interested in this type of work...