Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is a foreman? Most employers claim he is a boss, and therefore an arm of management. The Foreman's Association of America, a labor union, claims that a foreman is an employe and thus entitled to bargain collectively. NLRB and WLB have skittishly skirted the question...
...Dead. The revolt, largely military, failed because its officer leaders did not arm civilians. Now the civilians, aghast at the blood bath which followed, were taking .belated part. The country seethed with hatred for Martinez. Rich and poor all loathed and feared him. The people were on strike. They refused to buy Government lottery tickets, go to Government movie theaters. Druggists, doctors, lawyers, justices of the peace, hundreds of Government employes declined to work. Railroad workers struck. The schools, the National University were closed; both students and staff stayed away. Priests supported the movement. A mass for the souls...
Died. Dave Hennen Morris, 72, philanthropist, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, longtime friend and early political backer of Franklin Roosevelt; after long illness; in Manhattan. He made a hit with the music-loving Belgians when he arrived in Brussels with a violin case under his arm, soon won the friendship of violin-playing Queen Elizabeth. After four years of diplomacy, pince-nezed Ambassador Morris returned to his medical and educational philanthropies...
...units, both here and overseas, but not in actual combat. They will enjoy special privileges not allowed them as prisoners, such as visits from relatives and friends. They will be subject to regular Army regulations, and will wear overseas caps with a red and green patch and a green arm brassard bearing in white letters the word: "Italy...
There were the three doctors in the California mountains last winter who saved a seven-year-old girl when gas gangrene had forced repeated amputations of her left arm up to the shoulder: "As a last resort, penicillin was given after all hope had been abandoned for a recovery, which came like a miracle." There was a doctor in Sioux Falls, S.D., who was astonished to save a man moribund with osteomyelitis and septicemia after sulfadiazine had failed: "This being the first case in which I have employed penicillin therapy, I feel that the results obtained, to say the least...