Word: levered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City Ways. In Richmond, Ind., a twelve-year-old visitor from the country carefully explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: some city boys had told him that if he pulled the lever in the red box a bird would pop out and forecast the weather...
...Colossal Effigy. In 1920, John went on one of his most famous rampages. Shortly after he had finished a portrait of Lord Leverhulme, founder of the Lever Bros, soap empire, the canvas was returned with the head cut out of the picture. "I wrote to his Lordship requiring an explanation of this remarkable proceeding . . . I received in return a letter stating that, on finding the picture too large to place in his safe, the owner had cut out what he considered to be the most important part, that is the head . . . As for the remainder, it had been sent back...
There was a logical reason for Big Steel's hard-nosed attitude. To compensate for wage increases, Steel wanted sizable price increases. The Administration was openly boasting that Steel would get no such thing. So Steel's refusal to bargain with Phil Murray was its only lever in its bargaining with the hostile and partial Government. Said Ben Fairless in Cincinnati last November: "Whether our workers are to get a raise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining, and will apparently have to be decided...
...Laborite M.P. Harold Lever sees it, British libel laws are a "playground for rogues." Even though the basic principles of libel in Britain are the same as in the U.S., Britain's ancient laws have so many loopholes that court verdicts are often weighted heavily against newspapers. Seven months ago Lawyer Lever set out to change the laws, got the full backing of the British press, which has been clamoring for a liberalization of the statutes for years. Last week, thanks largely to Lever's efforts, Britain's libel laws were getting their first real overhauling...
Fact & Fiction. Futhermore, said Lever, the laws are so bad that they "provide an opportunity for a whole lot of unscrupulous people to bring actions . . . merely for the purpose of extorting money damages." In one classic case London's Daily Mirror lost a damage suit to a man who had the same name as an imaginary character in a light-hearted Mirror article on French resorts...