Word: balke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were back to normal output within two weeks of their seizure. But since John L. Lewis' full demands have not yet been approved by the War Labor Board, Attorney General Biddle last week ruled that the U.S. can operate the mines indefinitely. Biddle's reasoning: Lewis might balk if the owners get their mines back before a contract is signed, therefore "productive efficiency" has not been established...
...same time, WLB got additional authority to deal with recalcitrant management. In addition to the power to recommend plant seizure, it can now virtually put a noncomplying employer out of business. Those who balk at WLB's decisions may have their Government contracts torn up, their priorities canceled, their materials sent to other plants...
...Jinnah, the Moslem League's opportunistic president, barking for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), came close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form his own government...
...first: Randall Thompson's Solomon and Balk is (TIME, April...
Congress might balk at both requests. The House Ways & Means Committee, working on a new tax bill, shied away from his all-out proposals. Farm bloc Senators complained bitterly, for the record. But Franklin Roosevelt had a big stick, at which his message hinted delicately: this is an election year, and the people are impatient with laggard legislators...