Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, where the Administration was frantically trying to catch up with the facts of peacetime life, worried Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach reflected the Government's confusion. To labor and management representatives from the strike-ridden oil industry he said: "The Government, representing 30,000,000 people, and particularly representing the young men we have overseas, is here begging and pleading with you that you get together." The Government, with the war over, was reluctant to exercise its only positive power-seizure and operation of struck plants. Thus Lew Schwellenbach was left with the slender tools of conciliation and persuasion...
Vital Spot. In dealing personally with the oil strike, Lew Schwellenbach was trying to meet the most immediate of many dangers. Already, 35,000 refinery workers were out in seven states; another 250,000 threatened to walk out. Gasoline supplies were running low in many states...
...Army & Navy warned that fuel shortages would interfere with demobilization. Said Lew Schwellenbach: "The very mechanics of operation of our economy are being threatened...
Rated far higher than last year's team, the Jumbos have been rounding into peak form for several weeks. Sparked by the brilliant passing of George Feldman and by Billy Irwin's hard running. Lew Manley's boys have already racked up a 14 to 6 upset over the Coast Guard Academy team and bowed comfortably to a powerful Yale machine. HARVARD TUFTS Swegan, le le. Rohrs Fisher, lt lt. Gale Foster, lg lg. Brncker Faber, c c. Rautenberg Dewey, rg rg. Owens Pierce, rt rtg. Hartman Perkins, re re. Barnhart Tennant, qb qb. McNeil Flymn, lhb lhb. Fledman Fritts...
...hope of the Administration, as Lew Schwellenbach tried to pull his Labor Department together, rested on the labor-management conference due to convene in Washington Nov. 5. Politicos devoutly hoped that the big confab might have a formula for peace before the entire automobile industry could be struck. But it looked as though Harry Truman was operating on a split-second timetable. His luck would have to be good to head off a complete shutdown in Detroit...