Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great maritime strike which had immobilized the nation's merchant fleet for 17 days (TIME, Sept. 23) ended last week. James L. Fly, onetime head of the Federal Communications Commission, acting as arbitrator, engineered this settlement of the complex wage dispute: ship owners would pay the unions exactly what they had demanded. Seamen, placated, went back to work. The ships moved again...
...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
...taxes on wages of $3,000 a year or less; $20-a-month Government "dividends" for everybody; $60-a-month handouts for all unemployables 21 or over. Like any good Social Creditor, he berated banks, and for homey campaign purposes he gave his party a fine French-Canadian name: L'Union des Electeursc de Pontiac. He spent only $4,500 campaigning, but he wound up with about 11,000 votes - a few hundred more than the dumfounded Liberals, 4,000 more than the Conservatives (who reportedly spent...
Tutor & Technique. The late Arthur L. Clarke, first managing editor of the Daily News, wanted his son to be a diplomat. When Dick Clarke finished Hackley School, his father packed him off to Europe for a year, told his tutor to see that he did not read or speak a word of English. Clarke studied at Munich and Grenoble, spent three years at Harvard, got a "war degree" after World...
...grimy police beat are not likely to be treated with courtesy. But this one was. Last week at the East Chicago Avenue station, the police lieutenant on duty deferentially showed him the lockup, the blotter, wished him the best of luck. At the County Building, Coroner A. L. Brodie bustled about, personally paced the newcomer through the office routine. Young (30), Harvard-accented Marshall Field IV took everything in with urbane interest. He was entering Phase 2 of his journalistic education...