Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with employers." Employers perked up their ears and wondered what sort of merry-go-round they were on now. Many, for the sake of labor peace, had taken their contract cue from Co-Author Bob Taft. He had found "no illegality" in the coal operators' deal with John L. Lewis which bypassed some of the law's provisions...
...advanced to the quarter-finals of the singles tourney. B. A. Cameron downed Bob Ruskin 6-2, 6-2, Dick May-field defeated David Young, 6-1, 6-2; Ted Boericke defeated R. T. Dolloff, 6-1, 6-2; T. Nygaard downed D. Gifford, 6-0, 6-1; L. D. Baskin defeated W. L. Kraus, 6-2, 6-2; and R. VonBlon advanced through...
Died. Pearl L. Bergoff, 72, tough, unlettered Michigan boy who grew up to be the nation's most active strikebreaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Bergoff once offered management an expensive but efficient service: he would ship hired thugs to the scene of a strike, keep business moving with pate cracking and machine-gun fire until the union backed down. Driven out of business in 1936 by-federal legislation, Pearl retired, mellowed, announced last year: ". . . If I had my life to live over ... I'd be for labor, I'd be another John L. Lewis...
...writers last week joined the fashion revolution begun by couturiers and fashion magazines (TIME, Aug. 18). A year ago Manhattan's Lord & Taylor had lyrically praised suits with "new bulky tops" and short-skirted hip-hugging dresses that had matured into "a faultless anatomy of design." Last week L. & T.'s ads cried: "Remember those shoulders out to-here, those hazardous days of the short tight skirts...
...first U.S. Ambassador to India), he hoped for a break with tradition. He announced that he expected to be succeeded by Executive Vice President E. Russell Lutz, no politician. He was wrong. Last week, to fill the $25,000-a-year vacancy, the company chose lean-faced, natty George L. Killion, 46, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...