Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost-of-living "escalator" contracts, on the grounds that they tie the worker to a fixed standard of living. But no C.I.O. officer complained about the G.M. contract. Big labor, at last, seemed to. be interested in stability. The only C.I.O. leader who could be unhappy about it was Boss Phil Murray. His steelworkers, tied to a contract which forbade a strike, had got nothing (TIME, May 3, 17). But there was some wistful talk that the steelmakers might pick up the Detroit cue. The prospects for a peaceful labor summer in big industry looked almost rosy...
Testifying on the Mundt-Nixon bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Communist Boss William Z. Foster was asked if U.S. Communists would fight against Russia. Said Foster: "If there is a war, the fault will lie not with the Soviet Union but with the Wall Street monopolists . . . We are not going to fight against the Soviet Union...
Ernie Explodes. One day last week, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas called on Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; what he had to say was brutally simple. President Harry Truman had recognized the State of Israel (that neither George Marshall nor Lew Douglas himself was particularly happy about their boss's sudden step was another matter). Now the U.S. expected from Britain, if not Israel's recognition, at least a stoppage of aid to the Arabs. Lew Douglas added that, unless the British complied, Marshall Plan allocations to Britain might run into trouble in Congress...
...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...
...Inventor. PhotoMetric is the product of more than two years (and $500,000 worth) of research by Henry Booth, boss of Manhattan's Amalgamated Textiles Ltd., one of the biggest U.S. jobbers of fine woolens, and its subsidiary, Bennett, Inc. (eleven U.S. stores). Booth, a grandson of England's famed Salvation Army Founder William Booth, came to the U.S. at 16, worked up in the textile jobbing field. In the depression '30s he merged five jobbers to form Amalgamated, which later became U.S. distributor for Forstmann Woolen Co. and more than 20 top British mills...