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...instituted labor-management committees to inspect sanitary conditions, curb contractors' malpractices and set piece rates. The I.L.G.W.U.'s Socialist leaders were demanding of industry the security that rugged individualism refused them. They set up unemployment funds, fought for pension plans, minimum wage scales and sickness benefits. In 1913 they established the first union health center in one shabby room. Says Dubinsky today: "This was the sentiment of the members. They championed the same ideas that later on Roosevelt made them the law of the land. I merely probably expanded...
...tormented years, as well as earlier works. The Louvre, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth,* had worked long & hard to collect from all over the world the paintings which best represented the renegade Frenchman's art. Fifteen hundred visitors trooped through the Orangerie every day to inspect the pictures of sable-skinned, expressionless Tahitians lounging somnolently along lush tropical shores, the earlier canvases of rolling Breton hills plotted out in poster-clear patches of color. Critics hailed the exhibit. Said one: "The best retrospective show ever staged in France...
...morning last week Arana drove out to Lake Amatitlan, twelve miles south of Guatemala City, to inspect a store of government arms. When he started back, gunmen trapped his car in the middle of a narrow, arched bridge, then opened up with machine guns. Arana and two companions were killed...
...band of farsighted Nutmeggers had plans for that territory. For $1,200,000 they bought title to these 3,000,000-plus acres of Ohio land from the state.* Then, in 1796, they sent a survey party, led by burly, action-loving General Moses Cleaveland, into the wilderness to inspect the prize...
Bull-headed Ben rolled up his sleeves. Month after month, he led Whirlaway around like a puppy dog, let him inspect the inside rail, sniff the starting gate, look over the stands. Now & then, Ben would stop to let the horse nibble at some grass. Whirlaway visited the paddock so often that it began to seem like a second home. Gradually the addled horse seemed to realize that there was nothing about a race track that was going to hurt...