Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question Shirer's book poses: Can what is left of civilization save itself? For it is the nature of men in crises that they usually prefer what is strong and effective, no matter how brutal, to what is weak and ineffectual, no matter how exalted...
...time instead of time and a half for overtime, a closed-shop contract with big Bethlehem shipyard) to arbitration? Hook flopped and squirmed, finally promised to put it up to the machinists but not with his recommendation, and fled from the angry committee, wailing that he had been "accorded brutal treatment." At week's end, except for a little work performed by nonstriking workers who had crossed the machinists' picket line, the San Francisco yards were still idle...
...dealing with labor strife, almost from the start, Madam Secretary gave her critics their best excuse for attacking her. To Welfare Worker Perkins, labor was the emaciated wife of a brutal husband, and Ma Perkins was the community nurse rushing to the rescue. She salved labor's hurts. She squashed her tricorn hat down on her head and shook her finger at big, bullying business. She tried to settle the General Motors sit-down strike in 1937 with Biblical injunctions. When she failed to get an agreement, she flew into womanly fury...
...their march toward domination of the world," paid high compliment to Republican Wendell Willkie for "rising above partisanship" (his first public mention of the defeated GOPresidential candidate), and denounced the agents and dupes of Naziism who "have represented themselves as pacifists when actually they are serving the most brutal warmongers of all time." Next day the President went ashore, headed north for inspections of Fort Jackson, S. C. and Fort Bragg, N. C., then back to resume his burden at the nerve centre of the world's diplomatic headquarters...
...Washington News commented: "Both sides ... are to blame, the union chiefly for its violent tactics. But this is a defense strike in which we feel that a major portion of the blame rests on the company. Labor policies of the Bethlehem Company have been notoriously archaic and often brutal...