Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though in a different way, for redheaded Walter Reuther, the combustible president of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He had a huge surprise for his four-year-old daughter Linda-a tiny electric phonograph with two albums of miniature records. And he was due for a surprise himself. His wife, May, would have sour cream pancakes for breakfast in their neat, white Detroit home...
Sitdown Walkout. At last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...Caudillo should be given his due. Spain is orderly and there is relatively little crime-thanks to police in overwhelming numbers and varieties. In recent months there have been fewer political arrests and no political executions. The Falange is currently on the wane-to the gratitude of every Spaniard except the Falangists. There has been a certain mellowing over the years; individuals may criticize discreetly, although the newspapers are still government-cast stereotypes...
...case, homeless and flat broke. Reason: the Russians would not fix a legal rate for converting their schillings into rubles. The diplomats had to wash their own socks and underwear. Never sure where their next meal was coming from, they scurried from one hotel to another as bills came due. On top of it all the secretary turned out to have been pregnant when she left Vienna; after she went back home, the Minister and Counselor even had to type their own letters...
...damn good, come down and work for me." That was a year and a half ago. Now Thackrey calls Boal "one of the best men we have," gives him a free hand and $250 a week (including expenses). But Sam Boal is glad to give Mrs. Hunkle her due. Says he: "When I used to write those brilliant pieces about politics, nobody would ever acknowledge that I had written anything. But when I write about that old bag we get a stack of mail...