Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one ex-goon, reminiscing last week about the teamsters' battles to contain Harry Bridges' inland march into uptown Seattle warehouses: "We always used indoor bats with about four inches sawed off so we could hide them in the sleeves of our coats. We had to use bats because the longshoremen fought with their cargo hooks.* Sailors used a two-foot length of tracer chain, or wrapped window-sash chain around their fists...
Europe, vacationing on private islands in Minnesota lakes and sailing the inland waterways aboard their own yachts. All they have to do is to be ready when the time comes to answer some such question as: "How old was Julius Caesar when he married the daughter of Lucius Cinna?" (Answer...
...letter published in the current issue of American Artist, he tried to say it in words as well. "It has always seemed to me," he began, "that the things man... builds are more of a picture of man than man himself." Trudging inland from Omaha Beach, Gleitsmann got his first look at the bombed-out ruins of Europe, and that somehow completed the picture. He was hit in the hip at the Rhine, rolled into a ditch begging for his lost sketching kit: "In my semiconsciousness it became an obsession . . . The [wounded] men near me-partly out of sympathy...
...summer of 1943, the committee tangled with the War Relocation Authority, which was handling the touchy problem of Japanese-Americans moved inland from the Pacific Coast. Committee investigators reported that the internees were among the best-fed civilians in the world, and a sub-committee charged that the Relocation people had released 23 members of the fearsome Black Dragon Society. But Representative Eberharter, third man on the sub-committee, made a minority report. He denied that the Japanese were being coddled, noted that of the 16,000 released by the WRA, none had been hauled in for subversive actions...
...ruled 2 to i that the Taft-Hartley Act's requirement for non-Communist affidavits is constitutional. It ruled unanimously that management must bargain on pensions with qualified unions. Even employers who already have pension systems, said the court, will have to consult unions on any changes. Both Inland and the union will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court...