Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...
...have never followed any man," said Ernest Bevin in the days of desperate wartime coalition. "But I will follow that man." He was speaking of Winston Churchill. Last week, in the days of postwar doubt and division, the friendship between the Conservative aristocrat and the Socialist commoner finally broke...
...fighting blended. Was the fall of Changchun, for instance, a battle or a deal? Chiang Kai-shek had demanded that this city, the Japanese-built capital of Manchuria, be handed over to his troops as part of a new truce agreement to replace the pact that the Communists broke. No one ever announced that the Reds had agreed. But suddenly last week Chiang's General Tu Liming led his troops 67 miles in four days up Manchuria's spine. As he stormed Changchun, the Reds withdrew limply to the north...
...they usually did, the 22 Benedictine monks around the hollow square of tables ate their simple noon meal in silence. But then, since it was a special occasion, they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both...
Europe in the Spring. "The first King and Queen with whom I broke bread abroad," he goes on, remembering the trip to the Peace Conference in 1919, "were King George and Queen Mary." The King made a little quip; the Queen "was not greatly amused"; they all had a nice lunch. While in Paris for the Peace Conference, the Secretary went to the opera with Admiral W. S. Benson, U.S. Naval Adviser. Benson was "shocked at the near nakedness of the actresses and the risque remarks," and wanted to walk out. Says Daniels: "I quite shared his feelings but told...