Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a glance over his shoulder at John L. Lewis, Truman pronounced the "emergency" procedure for settling nationwide strikes ineffective. The board of inquiry would be only a sounding board. After the 80-day injunction period expired, the whole problem would have to be transferred to Congress, in or out of session-thus throwing major disputes "into the political arena for disposition." Said Truman: "This entire procedure is based on the . . . erroneous assumption . . . that strikes are called in haste as the result of inflamed passions, and that union leaders do not represent the wishes of the workers...
...loophole looked as big as a mine shaft; refusal to work because of "abnormally dangerous" conditions was not considered a strike. On June 30, John L. Lewis might find something dangerous in every mine...
Doubts of le Peré Noël. Gallic skepticism had not gone to sleep. Henri Clery, 48, who rents boats on the Seine at the St. Cloud bridge, scratched his unshaven chin. "It seems too good to be true," he said. "But does Mr. Marshall really speak for all Americans? You know, I stopped believing in le peré Noël a long time...
Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another...
...Akron, Ohio, Bernice L. Wise sued a cafe proprietor for damages, complained that while in the café she had been bitten by one of two Pomeranians in their cups...