Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss and needed help, has been denied. But Publisher Stern did telephone John L. Lewis, to whose C.I.O. the Guild belongs. In subsequent telephone conversations with Guild officials in Manhattan, Mr. Lewis muttered something about "the White House." He advised the Guild to accept the proposition "the way Stern wants it." The Guild did so. Said Publisher Stern: "You would lend money to your grandmother. Why not to your boss...
...least 500 new ships in the next ten years. To man these ships, the commission wants well-trained men. In his straight-from-the-shoulder critique of U. S. shipping last year, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, then commission chairman, recommended Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel. At this suggestion the warring factions of U. S. marine labor stopped making faces at one another long enough to make a unanimous wry face at Joe Kennedy. In addition to being an implied slight to the 140,000 members of U. S. maritime unions, such...
...majority of U. S. citizens, Hi-Li is the childish pastime of bouncing a rubber ball off the face of a wooden paddle. But those who have ever spent a night in Miami or Havana know that "high lie" is the way you pronounce the Cuban national game, spelled jai alai and played by scooping the ball in mid-air with shallow wicker baskets and hurling it against the walls of a long concrete court...
...down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...
...trying to escape TVA's punishing competition by selling out. Commonwealth's President Wendell Willkie wants to sell his integrated properties in one batch; TVA Director David Lilienthal wants to buy them piecemeal, using the threat of municipal competition with lower power rates to get his way. Thus the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga offered to buy the Chattanooga property of Mr. Willkie's Tennessee Electric Power Co., threatened to build its own plant unless he agreed. Last week, in a long letter to the board, Mr. Willkie deftly left the matter hanging, wound up with...