Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time being the problems were still in the hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...
...issues of labor and taxes. At week's end John L. Lewis sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...
...airfield of its own. But when the local Chamber of Commerce or the American Legion post tries to establish one, prospective neighbors complain bitterly and point to some other part of town. Better no airport at all than one so close that plane noises will panic the chickens and disturb folks' sleep...
Gilded Bottoms. With the economy of the Good Neighbor thus bolstered, Mike Alemán was ready to see more of the U.S. Behind him was only one minor incident to disturb hemispheric solidarity. At a high-brass dinner in the Mexican Embassy, freshly applied gilt had come off the chairs onto the formal bottoms of such U.S. dignitaries as Senators Vandenberg and Connally, Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach...
...that he himself had studied canon law (at Turin University) and needed no help in its interpretation. He recalled his words to last year's Communist Party Congress: "Since the . . . Church will continue to be the very center of our country-and hence any conflict with it would disturb the consciences of many citizens-we [Communists] must arrange carefully our relations with the Catholic Church...