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Arthur Vandenberg had deliberately frittered away his chances. Why? The Presidency is an honor few men would willingly forgo. It was an honor Vandenberg himself had hoped for in 1936 and in 1940, when his chances of winning the election were considerably less. But his own position in history was now secure, his age (64) and his health (a "slow heart") might be severely tried by the burdens of the White House. It was a choice he could not bring himself to make...
...England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
...contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...
...business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he shared Labor's triumph in 1945. For them, it would be the moment when they must go to the King, give up their seals of office, and forgo the honors, the chauffeurs and cars, the ?5,000 a year, the sense of power and position which most ministers, being human, come to consider theirs forever. Most of the ministers probably did not yet know just which heads would roll. Last week Prime Minister Attlee was apparently still making...
...thousands who feel the way I do, plus the thousands who might be shown that they are simply borrowing the money from their children, were to voluntarily forgo their share on the condition that the national debt be reduced that amount, I think we'd be getting somewhere...