Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHARLES ENEMARK Rock Island...
...promptly ordered the "unconditional return" of all strikers. The Johnsville strikers did not obey. But when local U.A.W. leaders tried to spread the strike to Brewster plants at Long Island City, N.Y. and Newark, N.J., they found WLB's threat effective. Workers from the two Long Island City plants meeting in New York's Queensboro Arena, turned down an immediate strike call, voted instead to abide by the law calling for a 30-day cooling-off period. Next day, the Johnsville strikers went back, with nothing to show for their walkout except four days' lost production...
...plan, proposed last week, for U.S. participation in the postwar world. TIME calls its readers' attention to this plan because: 1) it is a specific blueprint, documented far beyond generalities; 2) it is pointed toward next week's meeting of the Republican Postwar Advisory Council at Mackinac Island, Mich., called to formulate an official GOPolicy on postwar affairs...
...Emma ("Mamma") Leonhardt, a motherly, sixtyish boardinghouse keeper, played hostess at cozy little German "coffee klatches" for the entire group. The name and address of Mamma Leonhardt were found on one of the Nazi saboteurs who landed last June on Long Island, was later executed...
...following men were selected to occupy billets during the Semester leave: Michael J. Kingsley--New York Navy Purchasing Office; Lambert Kaspers--Thompsonville, Staton Island, New York; John A. O'Hara and Arthur A. Aschauer--Navy Aviation Supply Office and Depot, Philadelphia; Ben B. Graves--Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington; Mortimer J. Roth--Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet; and John E. Keery--Boston Navy -Yard...