Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...before elections they may get politically het up. But after an election is past, they quickly return to their normal attitude, which is both affectionate and aloof. Sure, they are for the President-he is their President, isn't he?-and of course they will still make up their own minds whether they like him and what he does...
...shown four years ago when anti-Roosevelt businessmen rallied generally to pledge cooperation to the man elected by the Democratic majority. That pledge did not prove lasting, and for a good reason: good sportsmanship may banish bitterness engendered in the brief heat of a campaign, but it cannot make men believe in things which they have come to distrust progressively over a period of years...
...under the Department of Commerce. The change was made over the protest of airlines and pilots, who had found CAA's administration stern but effective, feared a change might wreck a great safety record. Last week Pat McCarran announced that he would begin a fight in January to make CAA independent again. Said he: "There is no branch of the Government that is in greater chaos or confusion or in which there is greater lack of cooperation or harmony than in the present Civil Aeronautics Board under the Commerce Department. Many trained men who knew their business have resigned...
...split by his pre-election denunciation of the President, last week split wider. Powerful, pro-Roosevelt groups, formally and loudly called upon Lewis to make his word good, step down. William Leader, of the C. I. O. hosiery workers, wired: "Well, John. . . . What are you waiting...
...close-the famed, fabled Narrows at Tacoma, 85 miles from the mouth of the Sound, where the surging water boils through a deep passage, a little short of a mile wide. No one can swim the Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic views-the dark green evergreens and the far peaks of the Olympics above the opposite shore, the wide sweep of water beyond Fox Island and Point Defiance, Mount Rainier in the east, and directly below, the shimmering green water, flicked with white caps...