Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court (5 to 4) told C.I.O.'s Roland Jay Thomas he did not have to get an organizer's card from the State of Texas before soliciting union memberships (TIME, Oct. 4, 1943). The Texas registration law, said the court in giving labor the nod, was unconstitutional because it infringed on the rights of free speech and free assembly...
That night, Harry D. White, a carpenter by trade, opened the package, found inside four bottles of liquor, five boxes of Russian cigarets, and a crested, engraved card. It read: "The Government Purchasing Commission of the Soviet Union in the U.S.A. extends season's greetings...
...slashed the production of passenger car tires for the first quarter of 1945 by 1,650,000; junked all tire-rationing certificates issued before March, 1944; informed A-card drivers that they could: 1) try to find recaps next year or 2) get off the roads...
...Sent Christmas greetings to the armed forces, to wounded service men, and to the Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls and other organizations of which he is titular head. He personally presented 258 White House employes with a Christmas card, and a scroll bearing his D-day prayer in red, blue, black and gold letters...
...70th birthday last week, Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat down to dinner (oysters and filet mignon) at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with 40 members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and their 60 guests. Dinner over, he was presented with a gold card awarding him an Honorary Life Membership in the Press Gallery. Then came the evening's well-kept surprise. A motion was put and carried by a rising vote. The Prime Minister rose, turned to a grey, balding newsman near him at the table...