Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's best-dressed women (TIME, Jan. 26) was out last week ringing doorbells, talking with housewives, speaking to Tory meetings. Fiorenza Drew, wife of Premier George Drew, had taken on the job of lining up votes for George in this week's provincial elections...
...Fiorenza," said a Toronto Tory last week, "is the best thing that ever happened to George." She has an easy grace and charm; her husband is reserved: his enemies call him haughty. In a recent 4,000-mile campaign swing through the Lakehead and northern Ontario Mrs. Drew made scores of speeches on the same platform with the Premier. "I just stand up and chat," says Fiorenza. "I don't get into the issues of the election. I let George do that." She was a big success. Said one of her listeners: "A lot of people, if they...
Colt's Jolt. In Hartford last week, Colt's Manufacturing Co., one of the biggest U.S. small-arms manufacturers, drew a bead on C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
...widows in one county of De Forest's military district; 600 in another. The planters were almost destitute. There were heiresses doing menial labor, great ladies without stockings. The planters wondered how they could keep the Negroes in the fields if they were not slaves. So they drew up elaborate contracts, forbidding them to leave the plantations without permission, setting fines for rudeness...
...make sure that key sections of the economy get what they need, the American Petroleum Institute drew up a tentative, voluntary rationing program. Under it, oil companies would give top priorities to farmers, doctors, transit lines, and the armed forces. If such voluntary means do not work, the House Committee warned: "There is simply no alternative" to Government controls and a return to oil rationing...