Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essential war industries, striking out for his ideal of free pricing. The Army & Navy began to complain of his robust interference. Thurman Arnold went right ahead building up a case against railroads for rate fixing; Attorney General Francis Biddie turned thumbs down. Arnold's ride as a trust buster was over...
...Caribbean has been cleaned up sufficiently to justify sending Rear Admiral James L. ("Sub Buster") Kauffman last week to a hotter, undisclosed area of command...
...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...
...Buster") Haley is a Negro convict who may never get out (he got a life sentence in 1932 for murder), but he is a war worker, too. Recently he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt: "I told him he was just about the best man there is excepting the warden. I told him I wanted to see my boys. My boys are in the Army and I figured they was going to send my boys over the sea. President Roosevelt wrote back and said he'd have the Adjutant General look into it. An' now my boys...
After Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, chief U.S. trust buster, had argued for an hour that Petrillo's edict not only established a closed shop but tried "to secure a closed country," brusque Judge Barnes did not even bother to hear Petrillo's side of the case. He had read the record, he said, and was convinced the case before him was a labor dispute between union musicians and record manufacturers and radio stations. The Norris-LaGuardia Act outlawed injunctions in labor disputes, said the judge; furthermore, he could find no violations of the Sherman...