Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minutes after Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald and U.S. Steel Vice President John A. Stephens flagged an end to the 27-day steel strike one day last week, reporters were called into their negotiating room in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel to hear the news. Said McDonald: no "battle" had been involved in the on-and-off-again negotiations. "This has not been a class struggle. We are just partners who tried to arrive at an understanding...
Softened Version. Next day the effort paid off. Stephens invited McDonald to meet with him privately at a Pittsburgh hotel. Said he, when the labor leader entered: "Dave, I'm here for an agreement." By day's end the two men had compromised their final difficulty: Stephens cut his five-year contract demand in return for a softened version of the weekend premium plan. In negotiations last week in Manhattan, the technical details were worked out. The major ele ments in the settlement: ¶ For the industry: a threeyear, no-strike contract, the first in 20 years...
...result was a low-key blend of strings and muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...
Pennsylvania (74) : 38 pledged to Stevenson, with the possibility that Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor Dave Lawrence can increase his total to 60. The other 14 are swayed by Philadelphia's noncommittal Democratic City Chairman William Green, who has urged that Pennsylvania go slow on Stevenson...
...settle the matter once and for all. Craftier amateur physicists attribute the fence-busting to the fact that sluggers have shifted from the 52-oz. sledge hammer Babe Ruth once wielded to lighter. 30-to 32-oz. bats that whip the ball like a golf driver. Last week Dave Grote, National League pressagent who has been thinking about it. offered still another theory: today's hitters hit more homers because they are bigger, stronger...