Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After having held up defense by a week's strike in captive coal mines before he would consent to arbitration, John Lewis this week got what he asked for from the arbitration board. The arbitrators (Lewis, U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, the public's John R. Steelman) voted 2-to-1 that the captive coal mines should sign union-shop contracts. The lone dissenter was Mr. Fairless, who nevertheless repeated his promise that his company would bow to the board's final ruling. The other steel companies involved had also agreed in advance to accept...
...Died. Benjamin Patterson Bole, 68, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
When John Lewis unexpectedly gave in, agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, observers wondered why this roaring lion had suddenly begun to coo like a sucking dove. Some suggested a possible reason: Mr. Lewis had good reason to suppose that the arbitration board-U.S. Steel Corp. President Benjamin Fairless, Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U.S. Conciliation Service, and John L. Lewis himself-would decide in Mr. Lewis' favor...
...noon Sunday the speaker will be Dr. Luther Gulick, Committee on Post-War Planning, National Resources Planning Board, who has just returned from a conference on post-war plans in England. He will speak on "When Peace Comes." Professor Philip Cabot will preside, and the comentator will be Benjamin M. Selekman, Lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems at Harvard...
...newly elected Seniors on the committee are Benjamin M. Hazard, Literature; Wilfred M. Kluss, Psychology; and Jack M. Peterson, Physics...