Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Neighbor Mexico was hopping mad, and the U.S. was caught with its hand in the jam jar. The list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because...
...Song Is Born (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) may not be entirely satisfactory to either hep cats or squares. Jazz addicts will want to take the picture home with them, to listen again & again to the jam sessions of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. To those who are mystified by popular music, these names will add up to much noise and little sense. A Song is designed as a starring vehicle for Danny Kaye, but he is almost drowned out in the blare...
...secularist opposition was the United Workers Party (Israel's second largest) which insists on complete separation of church and state. The United Workers last week charged the government with "a design to force religion on the soldiers" by closing army kitchens on Yom Kippur, providing only bread and jam to "thousands of soldiers who did not want to fast." Other secularists demanded a government investigation of an army commander who (they said) had marched 600 soldiers to a synagogue...
...biggest football crowd since the 1946 Yale game will jam Harvard Stadium Saturday afternoon to witness the Dartmouth raid...
...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...