Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed a fact-finding board to study the U.A.W. strike against General Motors. The appointees: North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Walter P. Tracy, WLB Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison, Kansas State College President Milton Eisenhower (younger brother of General Ike). ¶ Appointed a six-man delegation, headed by Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, to an Anglo-American committee which will investigate the Arab-Jewish deadlock in Palestine. ¶ Paid a pre-Christmas visit to wounded veterans in the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. ¶ Put balding, affable Wilson Wyatt, ex-Mayor...
Reuther: When a bunch of workers asks for their share you thumb your nose at them, tell them to go to hell, refuse to conciliate, refuse to bargain, refuse to negotiate, refuse to arbitrate. That is the way you do it. You are asking for a fight and, brother, you are going to get it, and if it is the last thing we do, brother, we are going to sweat this one out to the bitter end. . . The whole American labor movement is behind us. We are backed to the last goddam inch...
...humid summer of 1942, Sergeant Nano Lucero and 80 other U.S. soldiers lived in a mountain hideout near Manila. Their food was smuggled in by friendly Filipinos. Among those who came bearing gifts were a young woman named Romana Romero, her sister and her brother. When word came over the guerrilla grapevine that the Japanese were on the way, Romana was the first to give warning...
They fled-Nano, Romana, the sister and the brother-to the lowlands of Shantol, then to the tiny village of Malabo. The Japs were always close behind; sometimes Romana crawled along the ground under sniper fire to beg or steal food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano's army pants, finally got him a forged birth certificate which enabled him to pose as a Spanish farmer who had come to the Philippines before the war. After that life was easier; they could go back to Manila...
Dora Camusso, who lives in a village near Rome, sold some cattle for 180,000 lire. Bandits are numerous in Italy, and she worried about taking so much money home. So she stopped at her brother's house and asked him to go with her. He was too busy, he said, but he gave her a pistol. On the way she met two villagers, who examined the weapon, found it unloaded and gave her two cartridges. A little farther on she met two masked men who demanded money. She fired twice, killing both. Then she went over...