Word: disruptions
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...Wall Streeters thought it quaint that Lawyer Masterson should be attacking Otis & Co. In a previous suit, he had been Otis' counsel. This moved Kaiser-Frazer to charge, in its own suit, that Otis & Co. "inspired" Masterson to disrupt the deal. But Masterson had another story. He charged that Kaiser-Frazer profits were finding "their way into the pockets of Kaiser and Frazer personally [via parts companies and other agencies personally owned by them] and not to the stockholders." He said the accounting he demanded would "wise up the whole country about Mr. Kaiser...
...winter," said Protocol M in a message for Red operatives, "will be the decisive period in the history of the German working class. . . . This battle is ... for starting positions for the final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this battle. . . . The Communist Information...
...program will depend on the skill with which the De Gasperi government can combat the rule-or-ruin tactics of the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the program's first success last week was measured by the energy, bordering on fury, with which the Communists were trying to disrupt an economy which was showing the first dangerous signs of recovery...
...great word war over "Who's a warmonger?" ended this week at Lake Success. The month's debate was a sea of platitude lashed by the winds of bombast and invective. It resulted in a resolution condemning talk that might disrupt the peace. Everybody could agree to that. In fact, everybody did; the vote...
When Communist-led miners struck last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 13), González Videla sensed a Red plot to disrupt his country's economy. Announcement of the rebirth of the Comintern, the day after the strike began, set off an explosion...