Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...efficiency. That was why he wanted to hold United Nations food conferences safely outside Washington. The President said newsmen had "pets" among many of the officials, and the officials had "pets" among newsmen. The North Atlantic and Casablanca conferences, he implied, were successful because the press was absent...
...happy labor relations to two main factors: 1) he thinks 500 men are all any man can handle on a personal basis, has kept his force at that number; 2) he has his men work in competing teams on parallel production lines, so that when a man is absent he not only ruins his team's record but loses his team position (though not his job) when he returns. (Pacific Huts is a closed shop...
...greatly extended social security program, post-war maintenance of full employment guaranteed by the government, and larger government cooperation with industry as well as a share in management by labor. The plan is, admittedly, only a recommendation to Congress; details of legislation, administration and financing are accordingly absent. But its guiding principle is clear to all--the assurance to the American people of freedom from want, of the right to work and to live happily of security from another Great Depression...
...even do justice to her extraordinary obsessing family. There was her father, old Lyman Beecher, bellowing salvation from his pulpit. There was her brother Henry Ward, heaving fashionable bricks from his. There were six other preacher brothers, a whalebone-and-woman's rights sister Catherine, an empty-pursed absent-minded professor of a husband, a batch of noisy kids. Uncle Tom, according to the play, got written with the house all Topsy-turvy. In the midst of Harriet's fame, cooks fired up and gave notice, a son got wounded in the war his mother helped create, twin...
Adolf Hitler was absent. In his stead, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop last week presented the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Dr. T. M. Kivimäki, Finland's Minister to Berlin...