Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every lawyer's trick in the book. He almost cracked his vocal cords with protest when the Government introduced some of the contents of his client's purse-FBI "data slips" which the prosecution charged she had taken from her desk in the Justice Department to give to a Russian agent...
...least 55 days) in the midst of contract negotiations. This cozy backlog was nothing to inspire sweet reasonableness in the operators. In three weeks of negotiations, the hard-jawed Southern Coal Producers Association had insisted on unthinkable changes in the contract. The operators wanted the miners to give up their paid half-hour lunch periods. They even wanted to kill the clause which requires the miners to work only when "willing and able."* To the operators' demands, the U.M.W. snorted: "Grotesque, medieval and a shame...
This week John L. began talks with a group of operators traditionally more hospitable than the Southerners-U.S. Steel, biggest of the so-called captive operators. He wanted Big Steel to boost miners' pensions, and to give them shorter hours (perhaps a 30-hour week) without cutting pay. Otherwise, another long coal strike seemed certain. For shortly after his newly proclaimed "period of inaction" ends, the miners will take their annual ten-day vacation. And by the time the vacation is over, the miners' contract will have run out. If there is no agreement by then John...
...interviewing Irish Republicans and such German characters as the late Franz von Rintelen, who masterminded German espionage in the U.S., and Rudolph Nadolny, who was then a German secret service man in the Wilhelmstrasse and is now active in behalf of Soviet Germany. In 1936, the Germans started to give up. Five years later, the American claimants recovered $26 million in damages; McCloy's client, Bethlehem Steel, got a $2,000,000 share...
Neither Harry Truman nor anybody else could give firm guarantees on South Korea, or any other area in Eastern Asia. The anti-Communist position was flimsier than the grass roof of a Korean house; the best that could be argued was that ECAid might keep off the Red rain until stronger protection was built...