Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riposte. With this whopping bill of particulars before him, Cap Krug-whose greatest hope had been to get the Government out of the coal business-hit his vaulted ceiling. When he settled back, he called in the operators and talked them into conferring with Lewis. Then he offered a compromise negotiation plan which asked Lewis to keep his miners on the job for 30 to 60 days while negotiations continued...
...labor leader, Atlantic City was filled with memories. In the President Hotel, John Lewis and his followers had plotted their great rebellion in 1935 against the A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
...labor's best G.O.P. friend and in line for chairmanship of the Labor Committee, was not included in Taft's group. Aiken could take part in the study "if he wants to, I guess," Taft said coldly. But it was "Ball and I who rewrote the Case bill last year," he recalled significantly. Harry Truman vetoed the Case bill. Labor unanimously opposes...
...Jimmy never left Times Square-even when he went to Albany. By the time he was State Senator he was as famous as any matinee idol for his flashy clothes, his theatrical trick of cocking his head and firing wisecracks. He killed a Pure Book Bill with a line: "No woman was ever ruined by a book." Once, after listening to an interminable political speech about subways, he rose and cried: "For digging subways, sir, you need a pickax, not a thorax...
Captain Dave Farrell and end Bill Fitz, the scoring combination that paced Coach Chief Boston's eleven all season, provided the first two touchdowns for the Crimson Jayvees and the going was easy thereafter...