Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Wisconsin's long-ailing Progressive Party died of malnutrition last spring (TIME, March 25), Progressive Senator Robert M. LaFollette hastily jumped back to the Republican fold. Wisconsin's old line G.O.P. stalwarts cried that he was just a New Deal wolf in ersatz wool. Republican State Chairman Tom Coleman began stringing barbed wire at the political water holes, vowed to keep the last of the LaFollettes off the G.O.P. ticket...
Have I been kidding myself or have you been deluding me for the past two decades? Aside from reading periodical barbs against your "editorial policy" in LETTERS, I know a Republican who thinks you are dyed-in-the-wool New Dealers and a Democrat who states you are blowed-in-the-glass Republicans; a Protestant who claims you are too pro-Catholic and a devout Catholic who wouldn't give your publication houseroom because he swears you're anti-Catholic. However, these people agree on one point, which is that / am gullible." Have you anything...
From all around the pasture came the same angry bleats. Said Howard Vaughn, president of the California Wool Growers Association: "One insurmountable object is a Government which changes the rules every June and keeps talking about what it will do next in all the months between. If we are ever to get increased production we must have the confidence that government will not upset our plans and we must have some degree of certainty of profits...
...hats: 1) A crystal plastic job, trimmed with red flowers and green plastic leaves, tied together with red wool; designed by Mrs. G. Burleigh Drummond, Oak Ridge...
...Much Talk. Outman illustrated his point with an account of his own experiences as executive vice president of Chicago's United States Mineral Wool Co. Shortly after V-J day, he signed a new contract with his 250 employes