Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principles of the Taft-Hartley Act were upheld by a special three-judge court† in Washington last week. The court agreed that Congress may require unions to file membership and financial reports...
Over the Ponte Fabricio to Tiberina Island moved a long file of brown Franciscan nuns, the rustling of their robes lost in the rushing Tiber below. Soon solitary groups swelled into crowds; the tide of people stirred all over Italy-fishermen with bare, brown ankles and ruddy-faced mountain men and pale white-collar workers and factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read...
...Leech figured that the petitions for Henry Wallace's Progressive Party would make news. He was right: by week's end the Press had published 3,752 names, had a few thousand more to go, and was snowed under with protests and praise. It had a growing file of signers who said there had been some mistake (they thought it was a petition for Palestine partition, or against the city anti-smoke law, or against war; two confessed that "I was drunk at the time...
...convention went on record in favor of the expressed political aim of Walter P. Reuther's UAW-CIO: "the formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party" to speak for labor-liberal forces. Chapter rank-and-file opinion on this stand will be solicited through a referendum the new national board has been instructed to conduct...
...Tass, the Russian news agency, Benton had a file of its conference dispatches. "If an American or British or French news agency were guilty of such shockingly one-sided, malicious reporting," said he, "the enraged readers would put it out of business. Tass is the official distorter, the official liar of the Soviet government." Lest the Russians miss his point, Bill Benton had copies of his speech passed around to the delegates at Geneva...