Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divide & Conquer. This week Ford Motor Co. was to be served with a similar union demand, in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. As the bargaining began, U.A.W. (and C.I.O.) President Walter Reuther sat back in his second-floor office at Solidarity House (U.A.W.'s elegant headquarters), ready to manipulate his teams by private telephone lines to each conference suite. He also soft-pedaled strike talk. When a newsman asked whether the auto workers will strike, Reuther replied: "If I knew the answer-and I don't-I wouldn't tell...
Diplomatic Miracle. Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a painful shyness and a distaste for the rough and tumble of Tory politics. After a typical Eden speech, delivered with its customary earnestness. Winston Churchill once grumped: "My God, he used every cliché in the English language except 'God is love' and 'Gentlemen will please adjust...
...Jimmy Hoffa, 41, pressure tactics is a way of life. In 1936 he quit a grocery clerk's job to start organizing for the Detroit teamsters' locals. With most of the area's teamsters already signed up when he joined, Hoffa looked for new fields to conquer; he threatened to cut off deliveries to some Detroit retailers, thus organized their clerks. By 1946 he was top dog of Detroit's 87,000 teamsters. In 1953 a House committee examined his rule of the Michigan teamsters, found "racketeering, extortion and gangsterism." Along the way, Labor Leader Hoffa...
...Gave up in his fight with White House squirrels, which have been digging up the velvet surface of his putting green. An ultrasonic whistle, box traps and a tape recording of dog and cat noises all failed to conquer the animals, and the President admitted that he had at last lost a campaign...
...convinced that trade with Communist China is vital to Japan's revival. The statistics suggest otherwise-China accounted for only about 12% of Japan's prewar trade-but the vision whets the desires of many Japanese. "I am convinced that China has no idea of trying to conquer Japan through Communist infiltration and violence," says Premier Hatoyama. "Right now I see no reason for regarding China as an enemy." Desire for Neutralism. Looking ahead, some Westerners fear a revived Japanese appetite for conquest, but the appetite, if it exists, would be hard to gratify without the great...