Word: cede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably be based on a mutual agreement of the need for both industrial and craft unions. Now that Murray has proven himself to be no stooge for Green's personal enemy, Lewis, the old man of the A.F. of L. may sacrifice himself on the altar of unity and cede the leadership of the new American Council of Labor to the younger C.I.O. leader. As a compromise the job might even go to Alexander Whitney of the railroad brotherhoods, which may be drawn into the proposed alliance. The gain in strength which will accompany the cessation of jurisdictional arguments, factional...
...British nowhere put up real resistance. They claimed they evacuated Bengasi without losing a man. The British communiqué stated that British advance forces had withdrawn "to choose our own battleground." The British were evidently perfectly willing to cede territory, since in desert warfare, as in sea warfare, the destruction of enemy fighting units is the only thing that counts...
Snake's Egg. Plaintive voices were raised in Tokyo against Anglo-American belligerence. Foreign Minister Matsuoka, holding interviews twice a day, discovered that Great Britain and the U. S., Australia and The Netherlands Indies, were trying to "encircle" Japan. He even suggested that "the white race cede"; 1,200,00-mile Oceania, the islands of the south Pacific "to the Asiatics," i.e., Japan. The metaphor-of-the-week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain...
...Rumanian Government was reported willing to cede a "narrow strip" of Transylvania northwest of the Transylvanian Alps to Hungary; Germany had reason to believe that it had achieved a clean sweep in Rumanian internal affairs, at least as of last week...
Angela Coyle Kaufman, divorced wife of the late American Razor Co. President Joseph Kaufman, who threatened to cede her "Castle" in Newport, R. I. to Negro Cultist Father Divine last July if she was not granted a liquor license (she can now get one), offered the stone mansion as a potential night spot to Manhattan Night Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley. Said cautious Impresario Billingsley, who has two going concerns in Manhattan (Stork Club, Nine O'Clock Club) and who knows the potentialities of a nightclub in stuffy Newport: "I'm considering...