Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until recently C.I.O. has tried to hush-hush the split between its Communist minority and its vast rank & file. By the time hard-hitting, straight-talking Jim Carey was through, the hush was ended, and his own position as a top-rank C.I.O. officer was abundantly plain. Said he: "We believe that the shaping of a new world is the fundamental responsibility of labor in all countries, and we of the C.I.O. are dedicated to that goal. . . . Having made this clear, let me make equally plain that we do not view this program for common action...
...material. The last preparations for combat intensify, and grow quiet. In blank black, a calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These are not actors. The faces are childlike rather than grim; be wildered, never fierce. Then the artillery command is barked, shouted, repeated, roared, amplified: FIRE! The barrage has begun...
...principles of the New Deal. Now, with the political pendulum swinging away from those principles, and the pork scarce, they were prepared to speak their minds. In their minds were two questions : 1 ) How far were they prepared to carry their revolt? 2) How far would the rank-&-file Southern voters follow them...
Back in civvies, the U.A.W. stumbled into a 4 a.m. return train to Detroit. The 83rd rank-&-file passed judgment: "Good guys." Said Walter Reuther: "We're going home tired in body but determined to give the boys in our fighting army the fighting equipment they need. The boys in the services have plenty of guts. We're determined to back them with plenty of sweat...
...ceremonies begin at 10:45 when the WAVES, regulars, and specialists will file into the auditorium. The speakers soon will follow and then the diplomas from the Navy Supply Corps will be given out. After the "G" and "S" commissions are distributed the group will detach and file...