Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outrageous! ... A concession to the stupid, shortsighted and selfish interests of economic nationalism. . . . The issue is the future trade policy of Canada. . . . If the protectionists get away with this first assault, the floodgates will be breached. . . . This whole sorry business must be attacked head-on by the rank-and-file members of the House of Commons...
Wage negotiations in the auto industry demonstrated the basic tensions between 1945 management and 1945 labor. Union leaders-some out of sincere economic conviction, some to court popularity with the rank & file-contended that the postwar U.S. must pay its workers more money for less work to keep up purchasing power, spread the job around, create full employment...
...strike was not too popular with U.M.W. rank-&-file, who are more interested now in pay than in organizing foremen...
Pledge to a King. President Truman had said that there was no record at the White House of a Roosevelt pledge on Palestine to King Ibn Saud. Truman was right only in the technical sense that the file was next door at the State Department...
Once upon a time, when the Yewnited States was just a little shaver among the nations, but already very spoiled along the literate Eastern fringes, there lived younder in Tennessee a lovable old man with a tongue like a rat-tailed file and a face so hard they called him Old Hickory. He was a great hero. In the War of 1812, he licked the British in the Battle of Noo Orleens (some time after peace had been made). Everybody loved him because he had come up the hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves...