Word: clamping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confessed Manager Joe McCarthy, breaking his clamp-jawed silence: "My nerves are just about shot. I'll have to do something about it or go nuts." He nearly did one day last week when his Red Sox, trailing the Yankees 3-2 in the ninth, got a hit with the bases loaded and failed to score a run. Base-runner John Pesky began a dash for the plate, decided to go back and tag-up at third in case the ball was caught, fell down, got thrown out at the plate. Next day, by way of saving McCarthy...
...hour, refused to arbitrate. Harry Bridges' noisy West Coast mouthpieces,* sent to Hawaii for the negotiations, argued that a refusal to arbitrate proved that Hawaii's business interests were out to push organized labor off the islands. Big business at least seemed determined to clamp down on the kind of troublemaking unionism that Harry Bridges and his union stand for. Arbitration on the docks, they argue, would lead to arbitration in Hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries, where the I.L.W.U. has 30,000 members. What is more, they said, Harry Bridges' union had frequently abused arbitration...
...historically, it has been the one activity in the last week where the tune hasn't been called by a conservative Administration. Consequently, Class Day has usually had a quality of strenuous abandon, not to mention drunkenness and obscenity, and more than once, shocked officials have been forced to clamp down the lid in order to preserve the good name of the College...
...Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, measured Protestantism against "atheistic and Soviet Communism" as being among "other grave dangers which perhaps are more to be feared because they inspire less horror." The van-dalistic raids on Protestant churches that followed simmered down last year, when the Spanish government began to clamp down more tightly than ever on Protestant activities...
...Economy. Stand-by power to clamp on price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...