Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's offensive against the Taft-Hartley Act hit Detroit. John L. Lewis had won one battle with a coal contract which had laid a few detours around the new law (TIME, July 21). Last week the C.I.O.'s lusty, restive United Automobile Workers opened up on the Ford Motor Co. U.A.W. made Ford a test case in a fight to get unions out from under any responsibility for wildcat strikes. U.A.W. wanted a clause in its contract specifically releasing the union from the law's provisions that unions may be held financially responsible in court actions...
...snob-I do not adopt the word. [But] he was willing to adopt any ideology that would give him a chance to associate with people that he thought were of some importance. He expected Germany to win the war. What type of sentence shall I impose that will act as a deterrent to others...
...Battles. On the Taft-Hartley Act: "Polls show that a great majority of labor itself is in favor of nearly every reform contained in the act...
...act as his deputy and a kind of general manager of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth has Staff Captain G. N. Jones, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. Captain Jones has a square-rigged jaw and a thatch of white hair over deep-set eyes. He looks (and is) the embodiment of that stout British character which a gloomy statesman in the House of Commons corridor recently said was Britain's one hope. As Captain Illingworth's deputy, he runs the crew. On last week's voyage, the crew was about 30% new to the ship. A few obviously...
...each slice open their left hand as a mutual sign of defiance of respectability, are convincing and indicative in themselves, and at the same time advance the story. But through it all, there is something unhealthy, embodied perhaps in Sartre's preoccupation with, and caressing descriptions of, the physical act of vomiting...