Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unions, like management, would be legally responsible for violation of contracts. Heretofore, some unions have violated labor contracts with little fear of penalties. Individuals who went on "wildcat" strikes (outlawed by union leaders) could be fired...
Eatin' on the Hog. In the years of political wars the Organization had grown stronger and resistance had diminished. Critics of the boss were never free of the fear that they might find themselves in court-before a Crump judge. There was always the chance of being beaned with a beer bottle at a nightclub, of getting beaten up in a mysterious street fight or simply being slugged by Memphis police, as were two overenthusiastic C.I.O. organizers in 1937. Memphis newspapermen did not forget one election night in 1928, when every reporter in sight was thrown into jail...
...Sword. During the war, while his wife worked for OWI, Carter launched Yank and Stars and Stripes in the Middle East. He found time to write Winds of Fear, a novel attacking small-town Negro-phobes; and Lower Mississippi, for the Rivers of America series. He came out of the Army a major in Intelligence...
...Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England has anything to fear from the Nazis...
...under investigation, clever management and adroit manipulation can all too easily capture the affair for one faction or another. It is in a hopeful if not glowing attitude that the College must accept the Conference. But caution, which is vital, need not develop into a spirit of cynicism and fear that would prevent acceptance of the proposal, for whatever the result, it is incumbent on Harvard students to be represented in the discussions...