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Retorted Madam Secretary: "It may interest you to know that one of my specialties is relieving tension. ... I hold pretty moderate views on [labor problems] and when I have an opportunity to discuss them I find that I generally allay suspicion and even modify ill-will and dislike...
...itself beforehand. Local disputes are carried up, through district committees, to a national joint board of the industry. "The objective is to settle locally as many disputes as possible, and if they cannot be so settled, to make the procedure short enough to satisfy the workers . . . long enough to allay the tension." Unauthorized local strikes are frowned on by union higher-ups and are rare...
...Brains need oxygen, which they get from the blood. At the time of birth, a child's breathing may be disturbed and his brain starved of oxygen because his mother took too much drug to allay the pains of childbirth. Said Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit: the difference between a living infant with a brain damaged from this cause and one that is born dead is probably only a matter of degree...
Cheyenne in 25 hr. 25 min. hard driving. En route in Omaha, when an interviewer asked Senator O'Mahoney if he were hurrying home to lay the groundwork for the President's visit, Mrs. O'Mahoney answered for her husband: "Perhaps 'allay' is the better word." They arrived a day ahead of the Presidential special. Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train...
...emphasized Alben Barkley's place as "acting leader." Before they left Washington the President had called Pat Harrison to the White House to make amends, to assure him that he was neutral in the contest, absolutely neutral. But this did not allay the tense feeling on the funeral train...