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...explain the American enterprise system from the businessman's viewpoint." Asked the C.I.O.'s James Carey, a later witness: Would not Beeson also administer the Taft-Hartley law from a "businessman's viewpoint?" Despite strong opposition from labor leaders (truculent John L. Lewis called him "Union-Buster Beeson"), the committee approved Beeson's nomination by a 7 (all Republicans) to 6 (all Democrats) vote...
Most of them were young, tough, freewheeling Americans of 20 and 21, and they had the courage to have their say and the strength to take their punishment. Said Corporal "Buster Brown" White, of Alabama City, Ala.: "If they accused us of somethin', we said we didn't know nuthin' about it. If they tossed us in 'the hole,' we just kept our mouths shut. We just didn't do nuthin' they told...
...sealed off Central Kenya, including the three Kikuyu tribal reserves, from the rest of the colony; 2) created "special areas" in three sections of the Great Rift Valley, where anyone moving about may be shot at sight; 3) sent in General Sir George Erskine, 53, a famed terrorist-buster who last left his angry mark upon Egyptian Ismailia (TIME, Feb. 4,1952), to clean up the mess...
BROWN Shoes ("Buster Browns"), having bought up two competitors in the past month, will soon take over Regal Shoe under an agreement reached with Regal stockholders last week. It is the latest in a series of merger deals in the shoe industry stemming from the fear of tough competition ahead and higher costs resulting from rising prices for top-grade hides...
...final, nuzzling gently into a herd of 40 calves under the slack-reined guidance of her regular rider and trainer, Buster Welch, Marion's Girl singled out the liveliest calf of the show. Within 20 seconds she had nudged the calf clear of the herd. In ranch work, this would be all that Marion's Girl would have to do; the calf would be roped and led away. In exhibition work, a pair of "turnback" riders, yelling and waving hats, try to drive the calf back into the herd again. This time, charging back from the whooping...