Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Board (its complexion having been altered by a change of membership) decided in effect that foremen were not Labor but Management. It ruled that, while foremen could organize, their unions could not claim the rights of collective bargaining given under the Wagner...
...Until we claim again the ghastly remnants of its last gaunt garrison, we can but stand humble supplicants before Almighty...
...assault more devastating than any the Allies had ever tried in cooperation with ground troops, and perhaps more severe than any in the history of war. In two days Allied bombers and fighters flew 3,700 sorties (a sortie is one mission by one plane). An Allied communique claimed that planes "blasted a path in advance of our ground units," and there was no rhetoric in the claim. It was literally and dreadfully true...
...full blessings of President Roosevelt, Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, and Price Czar Prentiss M. Brown. Both were aimed to head off John Lewis' continued demand for a $2 a day raise for his miners, and to quiet the rumbles of dissatisfaction from other labor leaders, who claim that wages are being frozen while prices are allowed to run free. And both moves foretold the end of the price-fixing philosophy that has prevailed in Washington for the past year...
...Adams' claim to fame is the sweeping of both touch football leagues, while Lowell's year was highlighted with the taking of second place in hockey and third in baseball. Winthrop won hockey and swimming as well as finishing third in football...