Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement made after "thorough investigation," the AVC cited Frank Boland, hotel manager, for breach of contract, Mayor Lynch of Cambridge for terming Boland's action "rugged Americanism," the Amvets, who threatened to picket the dinner 400 strong if it were held, and former Cambridge councilman Christopher Carolina for allowing his campaign sound truck to protest the gathering "without adequate investigation of the circumstances...
Like a judge donning the black cap to pronounce the death penalty, the Speaker of the House of Commons placed his black cocked hat on his bewigged head. Then he read the sentence. For breach of confidence, an affront to the House, and contempt, the Honorable Member from Gravesend, Garry Allighan, was expelled from Commons...
Outside the unions themselves, however, in the ranks of the politicians who speak for labor, the intellectuals who think out labor's problems, and that scattered army of professional men, students, and politically-alert citizens who fight labor's public opinion battles, a tragic breach seriously threatens labor's current political potential. This is the independent-liberal split between Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and Progressive Citizens of America...
Possible solutions to the evil (if it is an evil) can be conjured up almost at will. A dust-covered fourth serving table apparently lies ready to be rushed into the breach it filled while the Union was in the Navy's hands-but saving a few minutes of waiting time hardly justifies sinking the dining hall's budget into a morass of red ink or filling the Freshmen's only large common room with extra tables. An even more obvious remedy would merely involve extending the Union's serving hours for fifteen or thirty minutes at each meal...
...regard to the section making unions liable to federal suits, Pressman pointed out that, up until now, almost all states have authorized breach suits against unions, but that these have never been resorted to because collective bargaining was usually favored by both parties. The new provision, he said, will only encourage federal suits of unions which might otherwise be settled more suitably by collective bargaining...