Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the union leaders at the signing ceremony at the White House was President Emil Rieve of the C.I.O. textile workers. As he left the White House, he announced a new goal: his 450,000 members will ask Congress to raise the minimum wage to $1 an hour...
...million to be spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...
...been a widower since 1947, when his wife died after 44 years of marriage and several years of illness. Mrs. Hadley, a trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...
...went to Yalta with Roosevelt, carrying his earnest optimism with him. He headed the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco birth of U.N., which he like many others thought "would fulfill the hopes of millions of peoples in ... the world." He left the secretaryship, but stayed in Government as U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council...
Solid Sumner Slichter went into no dreams of his own of an atom-built, atom-powered U.S. wonderland; he assumed only a continuance of the American talent for invention, and the American genius for production. He left the possibility of war out of consideration, as something that could not be charted. Then, projecting forward from known past performance, he predicted...