Word: backtracked
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...nothing to do with portal pay. The none-too-clear Supreme Court ruling, handed down by labor's old friend, Justice Frank Murphy, had obviously opened the door to much current trouble for unions along with the hoped-for future benefits. Plainly, the time had come to backtrack fast...
...dead; dead as a doornail. All price ceilings were off-a state of affairs the U.S. people had not known for more than four and a half years. No matter if Congress did backtrack and restore a few, OPA was over and done with...
Time for a Breather? At Magdeburg, where it had bridged the Elbe, the "Hell on Wheels" Division was forced to backtrack for the first time in 30 months of fighting Germans. Three enemy divisions came charging out from Berlin and flailed at the bridgehead troops with massed artillery. The Yanks yielded the bridgehead with heavy casualties, some swimming back across the 450-ft. river. Fifteen miles to the southeast, however, at Barby, other Ninth Army units held a bridgehead five miles deep...
Committee members ate it up: this was good, red meat to outpost-hungry Congressmen. Frank Knox had to backtrack a little under questioning; such a scheme was not now under consideration, said he, and it was "what might be called wishful thinking...
This week Franklin Roosevelt suffered his worst political defeat since an irate Congress forced him to backtrack on packing the Supreme Court in 1937. What had at first seemed like a minor political revolt against his nomination of ex-Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn as Minister to Australia turned into a rout. Faced with certain Senate rejection, Ed Flynn asked that his name be withdrawn. The President complied...