Word: fruitlessness
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...Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes...
...threatens to name City Clerk Frederick H. Burke to the long-disputed mayor's post, and thereby put an end to the fruitless voting sessions that one gallery observer called "the most ludierous burlesque I ever...
...despite the apparent necessity of a mayor, local citizens won't be entirely happy even when this long-awaited figurehead finally gets in the City Hall. If Governor Bradford appoints the city clerk to the post, and lets the Council play around with its fruitless elections on its own time, Cambridge will loose its most recently discovered amusement center--the council chamber on the second floor of City Hall...
...John L. Lewis,* who had risen from statistician to president in the United Mine Workers, was getting ready for a trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown as a pipe smoker on TIME'S 13th cover) had returned from convalescence to take up a fruitless job as head of the American Construction Council. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin† was quietly getting his hammer lock on the Communist Party. In Ahmadabad, Gandhi, jailed, was finding words which were to become truth to scores of millions...
...answering the Wallaceites' attacks the Marshall Plan Committee termed its drive a "positive approach to influence congressional action," and restated its program, "rather than become involved in an exchange of fruitless discussions with any group...