Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor leaders have never liked cost-of-living "escalator" contracts, on the grounds that they tie the worker to a fixed standard of living. But no C.I.O. officer complained about the G.M. contract. Big labor, at last, seemed to. be interested in stability. The only C.I.O. leader who could be unhappy about it was Boss Phil Murray. His steelworkers, tied to a contract which forbade a strike, had got nothing (TIME, May 3, 17). But there was some wistful talk that the steelmakers might pick up the Detroit cue. The prospects for a peaceful labor summer in big industry looked...
...elected to the County Court. A little later came the big break in his career. Brooklyn had been suffering an epidemic of murder; in two years, 20 unsolved cases had collected on the books. Democratic Leader Frank V. Kelly asked him to run for Kings County (Brooklyn) district attorney. He did, and was elected. Two years later he was a famous man; he had exposed and broken the notorious criminal ring, Murder, Inc., had sent seven of its members to the electric chair...
...newest film, The Comedian. It turned out to be one of his usual hits. When the show was over, he and his leading lady, Lina Marconi, were driven away for a gay supper. At the lowered barrier of a railway crossing, however, men sprang from the darkness. Said their leader: "We are terribly sorry, Monsieur Sacha Guitry, but we are men of the Resistance and we think it advisable that you come with...
...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, it was an hour of decision. Time & again APRA's husky leader had been outmaneuvered in the bitter struggle for power between Right and Left. This time APRA's enemies seemed ready for a finish fight. Even democratically minded President Jose Luis Bustamante, who was elected with Aprista votes, had joined the opposition (TIME, May 17). He was governing without a Congress...