Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their spiritual father, Bishop Eugene Limoges of Mont-Laurier, that this was wrong. In a 900-word pastoral letter read from all diocesan pulpits, Bishop Limoges said: "Catholics cannot be neutral [in effect, they cannot divorce their social life from Catholicism]. . . . Instead of frequenting non-Catholic . . . clubs, they should establish, for themselves exclusively, similar associations." Specifically mentioned: Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Moose...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis, eyeing little old St. John's College's 32-acre campus across the street, has long coveted its neighbor's land (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week, having met stony, well-organized resistance and having failed to establish a beachhead, the Navy retired. St. Johnnies, testifying for a year before the House Naval Affairs Committee, had thrown their 100 Great Books at the Navy and statistics to show that St. John's was the nation's third oldest college. The Congressional committee told the Navy to find somewhere else to expand...
...presented Labor's four demands: 1) permit the National War Labor Board to approve a 20% hike in take-home pay for a 40-hour week; 2) abolish the system allocating wage control to the War Labor Board, supervision of working conditions to the Government conciliation service; 3) establish industrywide, instead of individual plant, bargaining; 4) order Government-sponsored negotiations in strikes already under way. Added Barrett meaningly: "If these proposals do not receive consideration, strikes are inevitable. There is danger of strikes in steel, automobile, electrical, hard-rock mining, chemical and packinghouse industries...
...Establish policy committees of majority & minority members to translate Presidential recommendations into speedier and more responsible legislation...
With a comedy personality that gets better from show to show, Actress Merman gets huffy, turns toughie, picks a laugh off a down-crashing joke at 100 yards. With a voice that seems trying to establish communication with Mars, she blares out, incomparably, a series of brisk Irving Berlin ditties (best: You Can't Get a Man with a Gun) and a couple of love songs...