Word: clausen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when the returns were in, the committee found that 1949's "Miss Quonset Point" was Mrs. Eva Clausen, who sweeps up in the huge Overhaul and Repair shop. Mrs. Clauson is 43, the wife of a disabled World War I veteran, mother of five children, and plain. But every worker in the 0. & R. shop knows Eva. She listens to their troubles, smiles at their jokes. Bluejackets and civilian workmen call her "Olive Oyl." And some 500 of them voted...
Winston Churchill, who was not at all a favorite of Cleveland Baptist Dr. Bernard C. Clausen, who enlivened a temperance lecture with his own account of Churchill's preparation for the famed Fulton, Mo. talk in 1946. Confided Dr. Clausen: "He loaded himself with champagne and whiskey and highballs and wine...
...Leon Clausen, president of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery), is a rugged individualist. The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, the NLRB, the regional WLB and the Mayor of Racine had all failed to break down his stubbornness. But Clausen had his own views on how to settle the strike of 3,500 U.A.W. workers at his company's Racine (Wis.) plant. His solution, as reported by a committee of machinery-starved farmers: "When these men have been out long enough and their families get hungry enough, the strike will...
...nation's fourth* oldest strike had ended, with an estimated cost to workers of $11,744,000 in lost wages. Leon Clausen, who with federal tax refunds could show a neat $1.4 million profit for 1946 despite the strike, had given the union an unmerciful drubbing...
Early this week Geist's Allis-Chalmers resumed negotiations with the C.I.O. But Leon Clausen only growled and glowered from the brush. The U.S., which has seized a mail-order house, oil fields, meat packers, coal mines and railroads got ready to seize Clausen's Case...