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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World politics had never seemed so fully divorced from furtiveness and formality, from striped pants, heel clicking, and shiny tables in big, guarded rooms. Almost before the first Bronx meetings began, two A.F. of L. unions had a vehement jurisdictional argument over the television camera in UNO's council chamber. People representing something called "The Committee for Non-Violent Revolution" picketed delegates at a cocktail party in Manhattan, were noisily hauled away by the cops. Some 2,000 newspaper and radio men-181.8 for each delegate-swarmed like lightning bugs, flashbulbs popping...
...believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps not enough Americans were aware of the gravity of the Iranian problem and Ambassador Gromyko's walkout (see INTERNATIONAL). But few had ever really expected that nations could negotiate more quietly than John L. Lewis and the coal operators. This week UNO's negotiations had reached the critical point. But the tense and nervous voices of the delegates had made the dream of peace almost as tangible as a union contract...
There was no fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...while it looked as though the Hollywood girls would have to go it on their own. But last week, by a last-minute compromise, the grave jurisdictional issue was settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...
...Washington, once the strike was on, John L. flicked his eyebrows at the operators and Labor Secretary Lew Schwellen-bach, who had tried, certain of failure, to prevent the strike. Everybody, including Lewis, knew that just for the asking he could have the same 18?-an-hour increase which the steel and auto workers had won only by long hard strikes...