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...Jackson joined in the fun, and the great team was in the making. One of their first and most obvious triple plays was the establishment of Durante's nose as a stage prop. Clayton, who always stood to his left, and Jackson, who strutted on the right, would grab at the nose or whack at it with their hats, as if it were something untamed and menacing. An early dialogue about the phenomenon...
...excellently clear WLB decisions (he wrote the Little Steel formula) he has favored neither labor nor management, hewing a straight line down the middle, largely in the public interest. In the final showdown with John Lewis, Morse was the unreconstructed diehard who stood firm against John's pay grab. All the U.S. will watch his campaign with interest...
...Reason for Awakening. The Moscow Declaration on Austria was as unexpected as an earthquake. At least some of its meaning was as easy to grasp, its causes as hard to define. The Great Powers certainly meant: since Germany was not to keep Austria, her first grab, she need not expect to keep any other loot...
Soon another 600,000 members of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers may be back too. Chief obstacle to the readmission of the Miners has been Lewis' grab-bag District 50, which has raided all kinds of A.F. of L. unions. But the Executive Council received a letter from John Lewis last week cooing his willingness to dissolve District 50 into the appropriate A.F of L. unions. The Executive Councilmen, thinking of 600,000 dues-paying members, prepared to gulp down their old hatred. Labor Expert Louis Stark predicted flatly: the U.M.W. will be readmitted soon...
...raising the hackles of U.S. businessmen-reconversion cost. The Government will foot the bill (standard practice when it leases a plant). With equal ease, the company will dodge smaller bugaboos. It need not scramble for equipment (WPB will see to that), nor fear that some other company will grab its market while it is reconverting...