Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking of a large city is a tough and costly job if its citizenry is as determined on a last-ditch defense as was, for instance, the citizenry of Madrid. It is more than likely that there is plenty of this spirit in Leningrad. Last week a bulletin from there declared...
Quickly A.F. of L. organized a maintenance men's union, raced to Mayor Edward Jeffries demanding that it be recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for the operators and that it have exclusive use of carbarn bulletin boards. Actually, A.F. of L. was fighting for survival in Detroit, for a C.I.O. drive had already spread over the auto industry, threatening to rout A.F. of L. completely from the country's fourth largest city. Mayor Jeffries, maintaining that the city could not legally sign an exclusive bargaining contract, turned down their demands. Neither would he give...
...faced the prospect of new strikes and a bloody war, Mayor Jeffries, in time's nick, won a compromise. A.F. of L. agreed to a system-wide election in the D.S.R. If A.F. of L. won, the mayor promised to grant exclusive bargaining rights and exclusive use of bulletin boards, even though he still questioned the legality of it. Citizens and defense officials took a deep breath of relief...
Forty Japanese ships, radios blacked out, hove to in the Pacific, well offshore, awaited developments. In San Francisco's and Los Angeles' Japtowns there was no excitement; press photographers had to cajole Japanese into posing in groups around bulletin boards. The switchboards of Japanese newspapers and banks jammed with calls, but they were mostly from U.S. newshawks asking whether anything was cooking...
...propaganda of patriotism under way, many a U.S. patriot has been thinking about posters. By last week, some of these thoughts had already taken shape, were ready for the nation's bulletin board...