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This seemed like bald politicking, like a broad wink to reassure labor leaders that Hopkins was still one of the boys. For to raise the wage floor would have little effect on established industries, most of which now pay hourly wages far above a 60? minimum. Those who would be affected, notably textile workers, are too few to have much effect on consumption...
...couldn't sleep a wink last night, Ma. because Tom Gaines and Huddy Futral were tuning up on their sweet potato and jug respectively for their part in he Hillbilly Band. That's why I'll have to knock it off now, Mom; I'm so tired. I hope I'll see you at the Commissioning. Until I do see you, then, Ma, I remain Your salty son, Murgatroyd...
...other union man went so far. But even in unions involved in strikes, leaders were careful to renew lip service to their "no strike" pledge, although their eyes sometimes gave the go-ahead wink to strikers. The 30.000 men (both A.F. of L. and C.I.O.) who shut down the Pacific Northwest's big lumber industry were not officially striking; they cynically called it "going fishing." And in one of the most costly strikes in the nation, a union took peculiar pride in the fact that its strike was "legal." Youthful (26) Chester Joseph Adamczyck put up posters showing that...
...Yellow Canary (RKO-Radio) is porcelain-jawed Anna Neagle sacrificing her good name by flashlighting the Luftwaffe's way to Buckingham Palace. Just to watch reputable Cinemactress Neagle play a fifth columnist for half a picture-length without once tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better...
Caesar landed where Deal now drowses and William the Conqueror made good his bid at Hastings. just beyond the Sussex line. Much later the furtive wink of smugglers' lamps enlivened coastal life, put money in the pockets of those who cared to lend a hand to circumvent the King...