Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back into the C.I.O. parlor. But, although he had collected the biggest bloc of votes since the Communists bounced him out of the U.E. presidency eight years ago, Jim Carey's words were still louder than his deeds. With mounting rage he stormed against the well-laid plans of the left-winger's President Albert Fitzgerald...
...take effect last week. The patients did not like it. Throughout the world, industry faced the fact that in the fight for foreign trade it would now have to compete for all it was worth with cheaper British goods. French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a Western European trade bloc to meet what he called British "commercial warfare...
...conference, which opened September 5 at Basel, Switzerland, and then moved to Como, Italy, attracted 200 physicists from almost every country in the world except those in the Soviet bloc...
Then a sizable bloc of Southern operators, led by Island Creek Coal's President James D. Francis, dusted off John Lewis' own terse dictum, tailored it a bit and tossed it back in his face. Their message: "No contract, no royalty payments." The Southern operators, who produce 40% of the nation's coal, cut off their 20?a ton payments to the U.M.W.'s $90 million-a-year welfare and retirement fund...
Justice Rutledge's vote usually went with the so-called liberal bloc-Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black and the late Frank Murphy. Often Rutledge and Murphy, in their passion for individual liberties, found themselves paired in lonely, bitter dissent...