Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the talks continued. This time real logs burned in the grate. Above the mantelpiece an engraving of Lord Byron, whose experiences with Greek liberation had been even more distressing than Winston Churchill's, stared down at the peacemakers. The delegates laughed at each other's jokes, smoked each other's cigarets. Communist Secretary Siantos surprised the Government delegates by blandly accepting their chief peace condition, the disarming and disbanding of ELAS. But Secretary Siantos had a condition of his own: an amnesty for all, not merely some, of the ELAS prisoners in the Government...
...Army had learned by experience: the way to subdue Sewell Avery was by envelopment, not frontal attack. In Chicago last week, Major General Joseph Wilson Byron politely stepped up to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s efficient receptionist Helen Love, asked to see Ward's stubborn $100,000-a-year president Sewell Lee Avery. Over an interoffice phone, she conveyed General Byron's message. It was: the Army's here agin...
...secretary led the General into Avery's paneled office. General Byron handed Avery President Roosevelt's order directing the U.S. Army to seize Ward's $302 million mail order and retail business for the second time in seven months. Franklin Roosevelt also ordered Ward's to obey two War Labor Board directives: 1) to pay retroactive raises to 17% of Ward's 70,000 employes;* 2) to sign a union contract guaranteeing maintenance of membership. Sputtered Sewell Avery, the New Deal's No. 1 industrial hairshirt: "Arbitrary . . . coercive . . . illegal." Citing Roosevelt's failure...
...Tactics. Once again Sewell Avery refused to budge from his office. But this time, no one summoned GIs to carry Avery bodily out of his office (TIME, May 8). General Byron left Avery at his desk, took for himself an adjoining office. For a day, while Signal Corps experts installed an Army switchboard, the General and his staff used a pay telephone down the hall. To get desk space for his clerks and advisers, the General turned the company auditorium into a big office, and piled its usual equipment-including a piano-on the stage. General Byron's next...
...Mass-and far less time for quietness or thought. Plain people often wonder how such supercharged individuals keep their health. The answer is, they usually do not. Anita Colby was hospitalized three years ago for complete physical exhaustion; last year two doctors kept check on her: now, like Lord Byron and a host of other driven people before her, she' has developed a habit of grinding her teeth in her sleep. To a friend concerned over her obsessive exertions she exclaimed: "But doll! Once I let up I fall apart! So I never...