Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he has come to hate his old boss John Lewis, Phil Murray still runs his own union on an old-fashioned Lewis principle: keep your men together with a firm hand, get them as much as you can. There has never been any factional politics or Communist finagling in the Steelworkers' Union. Its funds, double-checked, audited and published twice a year, go solidly into the union treasury instead of into such social service experiments as summer camps and solariums...
...forgotten, the Pope re-echoed the Council's appeal to non-Catholic Christians. He appealed for the return to the Catholic faith of all who believed "in the principal divinely revealed truths." When Christians outside the Church of Rome observed, he said, that the Church "remains firm in the faith, powerful in its works, enriching all men without distinction of race, creed or color, then they, it may be hoped, will . . . sense a desire, implanted deeply in the heart of every man, for that necessary union with Peter and his successors...
...formula was in full application last week. Britain no longer aggressively expanding her empire could scarcely count on firm U.S. support so remote a corner of the world as Irans northwest corner, Azerbaijan. Because the Russians knew this well the men of the Red Army who occupy northern Iran were appointed by Moscow as paladins of self-determination. Benevolently, they looked the other way while the new Communist-inspired "Democratic Party" led a revolt. The crooked streets of Tabriz, Iran's second city, were clouded with dust and excitement as the National Assembly prepared to proclaim the province...
Chandler argued that syrup is not sugar, thus does not come under rationing. This, it said, was what it had been advised by the law firm of onetime OPA Boss Prentiss M. Brown. OPA brushed this argument aside. It held that cane syrup cannot be used commercially without being purified and crystallized-and crystallized syrup is sugar. The Court agreed, cut off Chandler's syrup supply by a preliminary injunction. Armed with this, OPA is now investigating some 50 refineries in Louisiana, which supplies some 60% of U.S. sugar, and hopes to force syrup makers back to making sugar...
Then they looked around for a czar to run the show. What they wanted was a man whose plea for free exchanges would be listened to in Washington; whose firm hand would keep the traders in line, so that there would be no trouble, such as last summer's scandal in rye, to bring down further regulation...