Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee unanimously approved the general counsel: Robert N. Denham. He will have full and independent powers to investigate violations, file complaints and prosecute offenders before the board. As such he will be a fair target for both labor & management...
...uses as a measuring-rod a man he knows only by a card in a file, Adam Lorenz, an anti-Nazi journalist who had stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because...
...Queen Victoria Jubilee Hall, thousands of weeping Burmans stood in the rain awaiting their turns to file past the embalmed bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed...
...center has a library which contains information on educational and vocational opportunities as well as books for staff use. Also on file is a list of current job openings supplied by the Veterans Administration...
Said Taft: "[The President] ignores every abuse by labor unions . . . criticizes every provision designed to make unions responsible. . . . Corporations have long been required to file reports. . . . Why not unions? . . . He says they might be harassed by suits by an employer. Everybody else in the United States is subject to harassment by lawsuits. Why not unions...