Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry-as well as nearly 400,000 soft-coal diggers of his United Mine Workers-had some basis in fact. As a result of overproduction, diminishing demands and skidding prices, the soft-coal mines were indeed facing the perilous possibility of a cutthroat price war. If it came to the pinch, a lot of little companies might be destroyed and a lot of John's miners would be out of jobs...
...Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers who marched off the job in a squabble over assembly-line speeds. The union agreed to new negotiations on wages and production schedules, and to withdrawal...
...curtains parted for the last time this term, and out came the U.S. Supreme Court justices to air in public no less than 39 interpretations of 17 cases before them. That was enough to make their record secure: they clinched the alltime record for dissents in one term-264 in an eight-month calendar of 151 cases. With that, they adjourned for the summer to ride off in all directions, just as they had been doing all through the session...
...point he erred. He denied that, after Chambers' first charges against him, John Foster Dulles had asked him to resign as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dulles came later to the stand to correct Hiss's recollection. With his memory bolstered by a written record of the conversation, Dulles, chairman of the trustees of the endowment, swore that he had told Hiss he thought he should resign...
...once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...