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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two weeks' trying Scotto claimed that he had raised enough money to guarantee a week's run. Lawrence Tibbett, head of the American Guild of Musical Artists, said it was no go: Scotto would have to stick by his contract and post two weeks' salary before the 40-odd people in the U.S. chorus, all A.G.M.A. members, could participate. Sputtered Impresario Scotto: "It is to be ashamed . . . to spoil an opera season like this...
...reasonableness of labor was tested for the first time last week. In Pittsburgh, C.I.O. President Phil Murray, who is also head of the United Steelworkers, agreed to extend the steelworkers' present contract with U.S. Steel Corp. from Feb. 15 to April 30. With any threat of a steel strike postponed, Congress was less likely to rush restrictive labor laws. Meantime, also, management might find where it stood in the "portal-to-portal" pay controversy (see BUSINESS). The same day, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther made a similar 30-day deal with Chrysler...
...looked as if the C.I.O.'s biggest unions were going to be very reasonable indeed. There was a second advantage in this for Murray. By pushing ahead the contract date-and the possible strike deadline-he would be sitting idly on the sidelines when John L. Lewis comes up for his bout with the Government and the coal operators on April...
...April, Clayton's experts would go to Geneva, sit down with delegates of 17 other nations* and try to write the most ambitious contract for reciprocal lowering of tariffs the world has seen, and lay the foundation of an International Trade Organization. Every one of the 17 nations which will grant the U.S. greater access to their markets will be granted the same access to U.S. markets. Under the 1945 extension of the Trade Agreements Act, State can, without congressional approval, cut Jan. i, 1945 tariff rates...
...savored the power of office more than Andrew J. May of Kentucky. As wartime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he reveled in having generals at his beck & call. If a "warm friend" or a good constituent wanted a favor (perhaps a war contract, perhaps a son sent to O.C.S.), Andy would pick up a phone, summon the official to his office, and arrange it on the spot...