Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chafee's talk, held under the auspices of the Harvard Law School Forum, will be the second of his Wednesday night lectures, and will round out the local observance of United Nations Week. Chafee spoke last week on the "John L. Lewis Case."
John L. Lewis was back in character.
He had stepped out of it long enough to butter up his old enemy, the A.F.L.'s President William Green as "the able Mr. Green," and to propose that Green and Lewis chip in $2,500,000 a week for the striking steelworkers (Green's A.F.L. was to...
"You have justified my judgment," Lewis wrote. "I did not think you would do anything. You didn't. You rarely do. Unfortunately, you follow invariably your well-known policy of anxious inertia . . .
No Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually...