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...United Electrical Workers, meeting for their 13th annual convention in Manhattan, plowed straight down the Communist furrow, despite the gees and haws of the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president. By overwhelming majorities, the delegates denounced the draft as "part of big business' war against the American people"; condemned the Marshall Plan as a tool of Wall Street; re-elected all their Red-minded officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Finish Fight | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: More than Magnolias | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

News that terminal leave bonds can be cashed by September 1 may raise an itch on the palm of the veteran, but something more like a furrow on the brow of the professorial economist. Two members of the Economics Department here saw the government move yesterday as another round in the inflation spiral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bonds Are Best Bet, Survey Shows | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

...week's end, the students' pleas had worked again. Sproul was staying on: "I believe this is a straight furrow. ... I shall not take my hand from the plow to which it has been set for the past 17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Straight Furrow | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Philosophized Lebanon's husky, furrow-browed Charles Habib Malik (Ph.D., Harvard) : "As Aristotle said ... a horse runs -it does not converse. A house does not make love-it is for living in." Malik's question: What is U.N. good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Progress Report, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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