Word: leatherizing
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...when he joined the Democratic Party, although in the Aug. 13 primary he had defeated the conservative Democratic incumbent, Thaddeus Wasielewski, for the nomination in Milwaukee's 4th District. Bobrowicz, a blond war veteran of 27, and an official of the C.I.O.'s Redlined Fur and Leather Workers' Union, denied the Communism charge. He had had the support of open and avowed Communists and the P.A.C...
...another result of the raids-part of a nationwide drive-was not so pleasant. One car salesman was grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...
...reason Bill Nassaur sells so many people is that he has thoroughly sold himself. His own favorite essence is "Cuir de Russe" (Russian leather). He likes to sprinkle it on his handkerchief and under his arms...
...Lean and leather-tough Joe Burke has spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
...went to Russia at Government invitation to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists. For the visit the Russians rolled out the Red carpet. The visitor had two nice visits with onetime seminarian Joseph Stalin, to whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...