Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost as an afterthought the board took one more sortie into steel's economics. For years, Phil Murray's contracts with the gigantic U.S. Steel Corp. have pretty much determined the contracts signed by the rest of the industry. In effect this has given him the weapon of industrywide bargaining and a tremendous power to will over the country's steel mills...
Scare-Word or Issue? Truman had given them an issue-statism. Asked at his press conference for his own definition, Truman was offhand. It's simply another one of the scare-words, he declared. He had looked it up himself in several dictionaries and none of them were in agreement. But others seemed to know what it meant-notably New York's John Foster Dulles (see below...
...same Sept. 1 issue "with no protest" from the syndicate or the trade, and had no "official notice" of any change this year, had signed no new agreement. Added Vogue: "After 50 years of reporting French fashions, it is hardly likely that Vogue would now deliberately violate any promises given to the Couture...
...third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though it was blown and whispered to him from every side." Even so, "the work made a great impression...
...Wilson thought that management itself was partly to blame for the union demands. It had not made its case clear to employees and it would have to do better. Said he: "For the last six months, in every plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the low-down facts on the business ... I think they are entitled to know. I know that if I were back at the bench working I would want to know a darned sight more than I was told. Forty-five years ago, they told me nothing...