Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counter this measure, the Senate's friends of labor, La Follette of Wisconsin and Thomas of Utah, slipped into the hopper a bill to impose on management that violated labor laws criminal penalties up to $10,000 in fines, six months in prison. Any anti-labor law would thus come smack up against the La Follette-Thomas bill, would have to fight with it for Senatorial consideration...
...underestimate his task. It was: to out-Gestapo the Gestapo, already very active in Italy. Says S. K.: "We have all still got a great deal to learn from the Gestapo. It is a magnificent organization, and it will continue to be effective until it is opposed by worldwide counter-espionage equally well organized...
...enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff and a biting remark. Colonel Kernan disregards the two most sensational defenses of modern times--those of Russia in 1812 and 1941--which did not develop into counter-attacks until the time was ripe...
...alternatives and uncertainties. London and Washington responded, at least in part. Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, broadcasting to his native Canada from Miami Beach, emphatically called Russia "the most critical battlefront in the history of civilization." Winston Churchill began to talk of "the spirit of the offensive and counter-attack." The day after Mr. Maisky spoke, Churchill promised Britons some successes along with blood, tears and reverses in 1942. And, if the U.S. public was preoccupied with Australia and MacArthur, Washington was not. There, as never before, the conviction grew that the Allies must manage somehow to find a place...
...Detroit, General Motors and United Auto Workers opened negotiations by slugging each other with charges and counter-charges. Both sides were apparently prepared to fight until the Government hauled them apart...