Word: solid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...months ago Mrs. Roosevelt told her husband to be prepared for a convention of Democratic women who were coming to Washington. Part of a program of solid, tweedy, 66-year-old Mary Williams. ("Molly") Dewson, ex-director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, was to whip up party spirit by inviting women workers to Washington to see how Government worked, pick up points for use during the campaign. One hundred were expected. The President suggested his Executive Office for an informal chat. Three weeks ago, Mrs. Roosevelt learned that the idea had met with such...
...Sober, solid, and imposing as the Tafts who own it is the Cincinnati Times-Star. Like the Tafts. it is a bulwark...
...dollars, he was brought up, educated at Shadyside Academy and Cornell. From 1908 to 1914 young Joe learned the oil business-five nights without sleep bringing in a new Illinois well, driving eight-ox teams with loads of pipe through West Virginia mud, laying a 20-mile stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under...
...Governor of Michigan appointed solid, able Mr. Ferguson a circuit judge. In his judicial routine Homer Ferguson won the respect of lawyers and colleagues alike. There he was doing his quiet job, when the noses of the circuit court sniffed a decidedly gamy smell curling up from Detroit and suburban Hamtramck. The police blandly assured them that everything was O.K., but the circuit court decided to poke around, appointed Judge Ferguson (under a peculiar Michigan law) to sit as a one-man grand jury and find out what was making the stink...
...Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate attempt to gain an effect is present. His handling of the water in the foreground of his large oil is to be admired. Fetcher's watercolors, solid but unpretentious, together with a group of sketches by Porges which are successfully impressionistic and mobile, complete the main body of the exhibit...