Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scuttled. In Croydon, England, Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell took a careful second look at his notes, abruptly ended his speech before the Royal Navy Old Comrades Association with a confession: "By mistake I brought a shopping list my wife gave...
...Taft-Hartley. High on the list was repeal of the Taft-Hartley law.* If Barkley had his way a new act would be written, much more to labor's liking. Some of the Taft-Hartley law which labor did not like: measures which outlawed the closed shop, required unions to file financial reports, required labor to hold elections to win union shop contracts, forbade union contributions to political campaigns, required officers to sign non-Communist affidavits, outlawed jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The business of new labor legislation was under the wing of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...
...manuscripts magnified for his weak eyes. Until six years ago, he played avid tennis: "Then, suddenly, no one wanted to play with me." He realizes that his opponents knew he shouldn't be playing: his asthma is so bad that when Who's Who asked him to list his recreations several years ago "I was tempted to say 'oxygen inhaling...
Headed by President and Mrs. Jordan, the list includes deans, faculty, and friends of Eliot Hall residents...
...list of reasons, to be checked when the poll is answered, lines up pros and cons of combined examinations after the first question...