Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Department prepared for mutilation. With the loss of its Conciliation Service, the Department was left with the Women's Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Wage and Hour Division, and a couple of minor sections. The crack-of-the-week in Washington was that Secretary Lew Schwellenbach is the only bureau chief in the capital who has cabinet status...
...other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...
Surprising Sailor. The man everybody had to catch down the stretch was Lew Worsham, a sandy-haired, 29-year-old ex-sailor from Washington, D.C., one time pro at Burning Tree. A nervous chain-smoker, likable young Lew Worsham had taken his wife to St. Louis with him, but made her stay back in the clubhouse. When he faltered momentarily on the 17th in the final round, one onlooker said: "There goes $50,000." But Worsham spit on his hands, with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under...
...Last Putt. Sammy and Lew fought out their tie at medal play this week. They went into the last hole even. Both had good drives of about 260 yards. Both pitched up to within 25 feet of the pin, though Worsham was still off the green. It looked like another playoff unless either sank a long one. Worsham shot first; his ball hit the right edge of the cup and bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches...
...time being the problems were still in the hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...