Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Multiplication Table. In Houston, Jasper Barrett, father of 31 children, grandfather of 91, great-grandfather' of 99, great-great-grandfather of 95, died...
...couple of friends into lending their names and giving their money. Then, without so much as a telephone call to Republican headquarters, he set up his "Campaign Operations Group." He enticed to the Coast a former advertising man he had met in the Navy, 35-year-old Ross Barrett, gave him a $15,000 salary and three well-paid assistants, set them to work on a plan to sell Republicanism...
C.C.L. Silby Barrett presented Labor's four demands: 1) permit the National War Labor Board to approve a 20% hike in take-home pay for a 40-hour week; 2) abolish the system allocating wage control to the War Labor Board, supervision of working conditions to the Government conciliation service; 3) establish industrywide, instead of individual plant, bargaining; 4) order Government-sponsored negotiations in strikes already under way. Added Barrett meaningly: "If these proposals do not receive consideration, strikes are inevitable. There is danger of strikes in steel, automobile, electrical, hard-rock mining, chemical and packinghouse industries...
...Michael Barrett Thmpson...
...Army Captain John P. Simoni was an exasperated man last week. The AMG's chief educational officer in disputed Trieste perspired and wrung his hands. To New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn he stormed: "What do children of grammar and junior high school age know about politics...