Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brookhaven, L...
...unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent did not retract. After Scelba's speech, as if by signal, the Communist front benches rose and (in the words of the Communist paper L'Unità) the "senators of the Left flung themselves against the provokers to teach them a lesson...
...also boxed himself in worse than the situation warranted, by neglecting to point out one basic reason why the 1949 figures looked so much better than 1948's -because the steel industry had been forced to curtail production for six weeks in the spring of 1948 while John L. Lewis' coal strike was on. Instead, Olds contented himself with asserting that Big Steel's ability to pay had nothing to do with the case. Said he: "There is no justification at this time for a fourth round . . . I do not believe it would be good...
Died. Frank Murphy, 59, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (since 1940), onetime governor of Michigan (1937-39)l of coronary thrombosis; in Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...vice president of C.I.O and the United Steel-ivorkers; of a heart ailment; in Pittsburgh. One of C.I.O.'s ace organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O...