Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September. The Ford Motor Co. also decided the time had come for plain talking. It turned down the U.A.W.'s wage and pension demands and proposed freezing wages for 18 months. Said Ford's Bargainer John S. Bugas: "It would be utter folly to take any action which would increase the price of our products." The A.F.L. agreed. In its official Monthly Survey it warned that wage demands could force employers into bankruptcy. Said A.F.L.: "Competition is back; prices can no longer be raised indiscriminately to cover higher costs. Business executives show new interest in cutting expenses. Production...
Communists are shifty, and treacherous colleagues, and I do not wish to collaborate with them in any program of political or social action; even when they profess to be working with you on this or that issue, their actions reveal that they have different and incompatible ends in view. Hence I think university presidents are justified in not hiring known Communists, and are justified in firing them in cases where a teacher has clearly sacrificed his freedom to use his own independent judgment. Use of this latter power, however, threatens a flood of abuses; it can only be held...
...Czech government says it is merely trying to stop church interference in politics. Archbishop Beran last week ordered Catholics to stay out of the new Catholic Action. Archbishop Beran said: "If some of you should be invited to join it, be aware that it is a schismatic movement...
...usual, Preston Tucker had an explanation for the grand jury's action; it was "the biggest rape of free enterprise ever perpetrated on this country." Soon, however, a jury would have a chance to decide who had been raped...
...after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies ... At 19 he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed 31 Eurasian prisoners in one burst. At 23 he had perished in action ... He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy . . . He had no subjects of conversation except the principles of Ingsoc, and no aim in life except the defeat of the Eurasian enemy...