Word: banners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During September the Board got 307 requests for elections to decide what union the workers should join: the previous high was 193. In the first ten days of October, 200 more elections were asked. It looked as if October would be a banner month for unions. Meanwhile there are strike votes ahead, already authorized. Workers at 96 General Motors plants are sure to vote an emphatic "Yes" to a strike vote next week; Chrysler employes will do the same. The bustling, powerful United Automobile Workers have already petitioned NLRB for a vote at 51 Ford plants...
Jolly Cholly, an extrovert who exudes cheer and carries a banner of hilarity, inwardly is one of baseball's greatest worriers, a man who doesn't sleep well when things go bad. He slept fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying on the ball field and leaves it there, just waddled home to the Detroit-Leland Hotel and settled silently behind cigar smoke to read the horrible headlines. Sample (from the Detroit Free Press): "Tigers Wail...
...Times's editors paid off Kluckhohn's enterprise with a three column splash on Page 1. Many afternoon subscribers ran Baillie's U.P. story under an eight-column banner. The New York Herald Tribune (probably a little miffed at the Times's scoop-it printed Baillie's story a day later on Page 8) had some hard words on a subject which has troubled many an editor: "Who gains most by an 'exclusive interview'-the paper, or the man who gives it out?" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Nevertheless, insofar as such an action does not interfere with our own way of life, we heartily ratify the action of our Government in joining hands with a state, no matter what color its banner, if such a union will further our aim of beating Japan. Few Quixotes still proclaim that this war is being fought for ideals, and I believe there is no American-Protestant, Catholic, etc.-who is unwilling to welcome any type government into an alliance which will cooperate in preventing future wars...
Russia's Red Banner armies, driving into Manchuria, strengthened Russia's hand, and weakened China's, in the coming game for Asia. President Truman, welcoming the blow, preferred to think later of the later game. He concentrated on Tokyo...