Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleaded for a Utopian ideal. "Capital," he said in 1926, "must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...
...columns of print in their Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
...when you're spendin' your capital and 'avin' a whale of a time, same as poor Uncle 'Erbert when 'e mortgaged 'is 'ouse in Liverpool and lived like a prince until the sheriff arrived along with three widows, suin' for breach of promise. . . . Well, the way I read it, we can't pay for the goods we get from the States unless we get more dollars, and we can't get 'em like we uster, from the English, on account of the English...
Sued: the Rev. Dr. Guy Emery Shipler and The Churchman magazine (editor: Dr. Shipler); for $105,000, by a publicity firm which charged breach of contract. Complaint: the firm never got the commissions due it for plugging a campaign to promote good will among religious and racial groups. Further complaint: Campaigner Shipler demanded the firing of one publicity worker "on religious grounds...
...producers also charged a breach of faith. The tax came just as they were negotiating a voluntary reduction in their "take-home" earnings from Britain. They had sent Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, Inc. (as well as of the Motion Picture Association of America) to London to work out a solution. He came back with a dozen different proposals for Hollywood to consider, including one to hold part of the movie companies' earnings in blocked accounts in England. But before he even submitted them to producers, Britain fired...