Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Lewis, his fortunes up again, was still as surly as ever. As he stalked from an elevator in Washington's Carlton Hotel, he encountered a waiting newsman, who observed: "You must be very happy, Mr. Lewis." John L. growled: "I'm afraid you're stretching your imagination...
...With almost cynical resignation the coal operators had caved in to his demands. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey had led the parade. All the northern operators had followed. This week with the southern, midwestern and western operators awaiting John L.'s pleasure, union and management lawyers sweated out the final details of a contract...
...clauses which would make it possible for the miners to exploit the loopholes in the Taft-Hartley Act. The operators insisted on legal language that would protect them against a charge of attempting to evade the law. When they found the formula, they signed. A few hours later, John L. Lewis' 200-man policy committee approved the agreement which would send the miners back to work...
...Quai d'Orsay, the Salon de l'Horloge was being readied for the new conference. It was expected to take only a few days to establish six international commissions, which would survey Europe's needs by Sept. 1. Complained Jules, the bent, silver-haired Quai d'Orsay usher: "Things never used to move so fast around here. Now they ask me to get the Salon de l'Horloge ready for next Saturday, and cannot even tell me how many nations will be there. You understand, we cannot have any empty chairs around the conference table...
...graduate recipients are William P. Corvese, Brown '46, Medical School, John J. Dorgan '44, Graduate School of Business Administration; Joseph F. Farrell, Providence College '42, Graduate School of Business Administration; Lawrence L. Okerblom, Jr., Brown '44, Graduate School of Business Administration; Milton E. Rabbitt, Brown '44, Graduate School of Engineering; and Howard E. Rice, Brown '41, Law School...