Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the same smooth manner that once sold vacuum cleaners at hotcake speed, Businessman Johnston heartily backslapped his way among the proletariat. Flashing his dazzling smile, he shook hands like a polished Wendell Willkie- with workers in an American-equipped ball-bearing plant, in the giant Stalin Auto Works, in an airplane-engine factory. At a press conference he talked about the booming U.S. economy, reaffirmed his belief that there need be no postwar unemployment, showed correspondents newsreels of himself in Russia...
When handsome, smooth Charles E. Sorensen was squeezed out as Henry Ford's production boss three months ago, he flopped down on a Florida beach to rest. Last week, his rest was up. He stepped in as the new president of bouncing Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., and perhaps, in the carnivorous auto industry, to try to take a revengeful hunk out of spry old Henry's hide. Willys, which has been hunting a president since Joseph Washington Fraser quit eight months ago, kept mum on details of the deal. But it was reported that in addition to Sorensen...
...Allied command. Recently she was discussing an aide's tribulations with Eisenhower's aide, Commander Harry C. ("Butch") Butcher, and wound up with an artless: "But of course I like it. ... After all, it's really women's work, isn't it?" For once, smooth-tongued Butch was speechless. Someone told Tooey about it, and he spread the story with fiendish glee...
Texas Democrats went all the way. New Dealers never had a chance. Months before the Democratic state convention, smooth, affable George A. Butler, a Houston lawyer who heads the Democratic executive committee, had politicked all over Texas lining up anti-Fourth Term delegates...
...great Grafa textile mill, seized 500 men & women workers, let most of them go after a warning. Some Argentines thought that the militarists were heading off a popular demonstration planned for May 25, National Independence Day. But the Government gave no explanation. The surface of Argentine life went brightly smooth again...