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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exactly how many would vote these convictions at Atlantic City was still uncertain: U.A.W. men, like all political convention delegates, follow the crowd; and some of the most influential of their leaders had still to pass the word. To the rank & file the key play hung on the question: what will Addes do? If George Addes, who has begun to feel a certain amount of admiration for Reuther's recent accomplishments, followed it up by backing the U.A.W.'s redhead, Thomas was out, and Reuther...
Fatigue of Defeat. Amid the worries over bread, political maneuvers continued. The Communists were still pressing for fusion with the Socialists despite a Socialist rank-&-file revolt. But the mass of Germans paid far more attention to the food crisis than to politics. True, some began to display a mixture of old arrogance and new bitterness which might one day become the mental pattern for many of their fellow Germans. But most of them were too wearied by the extraordinary efforts of living to spend any effort on political thought and action. Germans used up their energies lugging in logs...
Penned In. In Los Angeles, Shopkeeper Dorothy Savey, whose home had just been burgled, called the cops when Customer Essie Flaugher handed her a fountain pen, asked her to file off the name: Dorothy Savey...
With the blackened stone houses lost in the darkness below, a single file of men tramped upward along a stony path. In sweet, mournful harmony they sang: "Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land. ..." For generations Welsh miners had gone to the pits singing the same hymn...
Roaring Century. When he became a director of both papers last summer, Robin Cruikshank began an idle perusal of the 1846 file of the Daily News, intending to write a centenary leader for last week. He soon became convinced that 1846, the paper's first year, was, for England, as Bernard DeVoto had found it to be for the U.S., a "Year of Decision." The article grew into a forthcoming book (Roaring Century...