Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country we have a special kind of head start, for we can usually depend on our American press-newspapers, radio, and magazines-to give us straight facts, to keep us fully informed, to help us understand. Now television, with programs like this one, can add a new dimension: true understanding of our own history and of our future...
...swung into action. Telegram after telegram was read to the convention from Ford locals, reporting overwhelming votes in favor of a strike against Ford. Despite the fact that the "news" was weeks old, the delegates roared applause after each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
Cried Reuther: "C. E. Wilson [president of General Motors] in 1948 got $516,300 in salary and bonus. He made $258 an hour. General Motors will give him $25,000 a year when he is too old to work but too young to die ... If you make $1.65 an hour they say you don't need it... We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pensions to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to pay them to people who do need them-the guys in the shop...
...getting somewhere. Seventeen white men, including a former deputy sheriff, were arrested for flogging, molesting and intimidating their fellow citizens in the Birmingham area. William Hugh Morris, a Birmingham roofing contractor and state director of Alabama's Federated Ku Klux Klan Inc., was jailed for refusing to give the court a roster of Klan members. A new grand jury was appointed, .and instructed to keep the investigation rolling. Said State Attorney General Albert A. Carmichael: "There will be no let up. We shall strike this bunch of bums on all fronts...
...real mystery was still not solved. Why should anyone bother to forge a piddling 254 ballots in overwhelmingly Democratic Bourbon County? Why should brilliant Ed Prichard, a man with a future, try to pull a clumsy fix that would give pause to the lowliest ward heeler...