Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to Chicago Boss McCormick said a mouthful on politics. He leaned back, coatless and shirt open at the neck, gave his word on the 1948 presidential lineup. Green: "Needs to be better known. Maybe a compromise candidate. I'm not backing him." Taft: "The best candidate. He's got a great name and he's managed to eliminate most of the criticism against him." Eisenhower: "I have a great interest in him." MacArthur: "Too old to be President." Warren: "Too far west-the East can't see past Ohio." Bricker: "Out because...
...business." Warned Joe Howard of the big, garish Zanzibar: "Absurd." There was, the owners hinted, only one alternative: firing the poor, beautiful chorus girls. Monte Proser of the Copacabana even went so far as to send his beauties notices of dismissal. Then all sat back and waited for further word from Caesar...
WASHINGTON-Price increases on a wide variety of consumer goods ranging from mechanical refrigerators to canned fruits were authorized by OPA tonight as the agency awaited final word from the decontrol board on its future food price policies...
...word that has gone out from the lords of the Corporation and Business Office is that Harvard is going to have difficulty meeting operating expenses. In face of rising costs, House rents and food charges have been upped and still there is no ceiling in sight. Almost at the exact time that the University and the nation were sweating through the June inflation scare, the Treasurer of the University made public the gifts and endowments which were to give Harvard its annual infusion of new financial strength. But an analysis of these endowments raises the question of whether these gifts...
...heat was turned up under the simmering political pots in New York and they began to boil. The machine-run nominating conventions were only a couple of weeks off. It was getting closer to the time when top politicos would have to pick their men, pass the word to the rank-&-file...