Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full blast. The C.I.O.'s two giants, the steelworkers and the autoworkers, would both go to bat on new contracts in April. The steelworkers' Phil Murray planned to drive hard for an annual wage. The autoworkers' Walter Reuther wanted a price roll-back,* but did not expect to get it. In Washington last week, Reuther said: "What we're after is not dollars but purchasing power. If industry and Congress keep on failing to reduce prices, we will fight on the only front open to us-wages...
...Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
...looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry of Education, who want more, not fewer, colleges for China's 400 million people. Says Hu Shih: "I am basically a historian, and as a historian I do not expect miracles...
...strength comes as a result of adversity, the skaters may expect to rebound from a rough time this Christmas to find smoother sailing in February and March against their traditional Ivy League foes. Right now such future opponents as Yale and Dartmouth loom as heavy favorites, with Princeton as an even-money choice...
...expect that this convention will formulate policies which will guide the SLID as a dynamic, non-partisan student organization," stated Papanek. "We are devoted to achieving the fullest possible democracy in our economic, political, and cultural life consistent with the League's educational character...