Word: balking
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...with Winston Churchill without informing his cabinet. Young Venizelos was afraid that the supple premier was playing too close to Britain and the cause of Greek monarchy. He was also afraid that the Leftist EAM (Greek Committee of Liberation) representatives who had finally agreed to come to Cairo would balk at entering a pronouncedly royalist cabinet. So Sophocles resigned, figuring that from six to nine of his disgruntled fellow ministers would follow his lead and that Papandreou would...
Frazer's unhappiness came from a swirl of rumors that spread from Detroit: he was putting Graham-Paige and other companies together in a new combine to balk Ford; the Fisher brothers were in; the Fisher brothers were out; Atlas Corp. was buying Graham-Paige heavily in the open market...
...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...