Word: krug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest race of all would be for Senator from California. The Democrats were acting as if the unseating of 38-year-old Republican William F. Knowland was the most important thing they had to do. To California went two of Harry Truman's Cabinet-Clinton Anderson and Cap Krug-and his ever-loyal Senator Alben Barkley. And Henry Wallace went too. They said their pieces for Will Rogers Jr. and other Democrats-while Will carefully ducked having his picture taken with Henry Wallace...
...once, every guess seemed to be close. Despite the generous terms of the contract handed him by Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug last May, Lewis found sudden fault with it last week. The whole agreement, he growled, would have to be reopened on or before Nov. i. And if not re-opened by then, said John L., the U.M.W. would consider itself without a contract. Everybody knew that that meant a strike; to the miners, the slogan "No contract, no work" is as automatic as their breathing...
...Lewis timing could not have been more fiendish. Cap Krug, electioneering on the West Coast, hurriedly denied Lewis' charge that Government "misinterpretations" of the contract had cost the miners "millions." Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election...
...Truman paled at the thought of what an election-eve coal strike might mean in votes, or what capitulation to Lewis might do to his vanishing prestige. Then he made his decision - the Administration boat must not be rocked again, not by so much as a millimeter. Promptly, Cap Krug changed his tune, agreed that November 1 would be fine for the meeting...
WASHINGTON, October 25--The Justice Department started an intensive scrutiny today of the government's coal contract which John L. Lewis says will be void next Friday unless Interior Secretary Krug starts talking pay raises...