Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White House Help. Five days before, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had stalked out of a negotiating session, throwing up his hands in despair. Actually the mediation meeting had lasted only 2½ hours. Phil Murray, out for big game, refused to budge from his insistence on discussing pension demands (although, under the contract, he was only entitled to open wage and insurance negotiations this year). Profit-fat steelmen* as stubbornly dragged their feet on wages as long as the union wanted to talk pensions, too. At that deadlocked point, Murray looked hopefully to the White House...
Fact-Finding Formula. As the hours ticked by, big blast and open-hearth furnaces began shutting down. Coke ovens were banked. But under the combined pressure of the White House, public opinion and the dark prospect of a full shutdown, some of the smaller steelmakers capitulated. Then Bethlehem and Republic, junior partners in steel's Big Three, followed suit...
Lanky Eddie Gall, traffic cop at Dearborn and Madison, rubbed his big bass drum with glass wax. Ed Roubik, warehouse foreman, licked the mouthpiece of his ebony musette pipe and squealed a few notes. Hefty Morton H. Petrie, salesman for a candy company, strapped on his whip drum and knocked off a couple of tiddybums, tiddybums. Shrieking pipes and throbbing drums in the hands of 60 middle-aged musicians swung informally into The Hootchy-Kootchy, Little Egypt's tune at the 1893 World's Fair...
...first big event on the schedule was the parade down Michigan Avenue: Doc Johnson's boys and some 1,500 other temple bandsmen; the Medinah nobles in $42,500 worth of new uniforms; the country's leading citizens decked out like Zouaves and harem guards; Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun of Tyler, Tex., sitting in a car in a bower of 120,000 Texas roses; 1,000 chanters (glee clubs), drill teams, the mounted Pinto Patrol from Oklahoma City, the Black Horse Patrol from the Kansas City, Mo. Ararat Temple (whose most illustrious noble is Harry S. Truman...
...young politician, Judge Ardery told the expectant courtroom, was 34-year-old Ed Prichard, Princeton and Harvard Law School honor graduate, protégé of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, adviser of big shots like Fred Vinson and one of the New Deal's wonder boys...