Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that if anyone wanted to know what his program would be, they should reread his September 1945 message to Congress. And he expected to carry out the Democratic platform, including its planks on civil rights-a challenge which was made sharper by Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, who, speaking for himself, said that there would be no compromise with the South...
Beck thought the Wobblies were crazy. He considered them dynamite-loving, song-singing romantics who bayed for the class struggle, but never seemed to know where they were going. But employers who had pistol-whipped Wobblies out of town had no more charitable reaction to more sensible union men with sensible ideas. In the hard world of labor organization there was no substitute for power and little power without violence...
Officials of the C.I.O. are more outspoken. Harry Bridges has long accused Beck of running company unions for the benefit of the employer. Since Beck began organizing the Boeing Airplane Co. last spring during a machinists union strike, other union leaders have called him the hardest names they know: scab and strikebreaker. But despite this, every West Coast labor leader envies him the power his tactics have yielded, and none can deny that he has won teamsters both wages and prestige...
...know that on the Anglo-Saxon side the idea is that this Reich will become an element which can be opposed to Soviet Russia. Maybe; but maybe...
...hostess to the Vice President-elect was filled. Possibly spurred on by applications from eager ladies ("I didn't know whether they wanted to marry me or hire out to me"), Alben Berkley named his daughter, Mrs. Max Truitt...