Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sound Wagons Roll. But the Communist-dominated Wallace-A.L.P. forces behaved like hungry politicians. Their candidate was a young (37), good-looking and aggressive labor lawyer named Leo Isacson, who was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, served a term in the New York State Assembly, had never met Wallace until the campaign. The left-wingers sent their doorbell-ringers all over the district, harangued the voters in English, Yiddish and Spanish. Their literature snowed under the other parties' polite handbills. They hired more and louder sound trucks...
France's National Economic Council (an advisory body that usually echoes the nation's mood) had told the Premier simply: "You have until March 15, at the very latest, to lower prices 10%." Beyond that date, no labor union could promise to hold down the workers' dissatisfaction. In fact, the Communist-led C.G.T. (biggest federation of French unions) was unwilling to wait that long. The Communists last week demanded immediate wage boosts which they knew the government could not grant...
...members in Japan's Diet. The roses were to remind Diet members to behave like gentlemen during the voting for the new Prime Minister.* The reminder was effective, but it did not help the Liberals' own candidate, Shigeru Yoshida. In an orderly manner, the Diet's lower chamber voted for busy, birdlike Hitoshi Ashida, leader of the Democratic (meaning mildly conservative) Party...
Ashida received 216 votes (five more than the required majority), while rose-wearing Yoshida got 180. The Diet's upper chamber voted the other way, 104-102; but under Japan's new constitution this was merely another nosegay for the loser: the vote in the lower house was the only one that counted...
...been stuck with it. As they had agreed to pay K-F $11.50 a share and offer it to the public at $13-and the stock was selling below the offering price-they could not unload it on the public without risking a loss. If the stock dropped lower, the underwriters stood to lose plenty. So Otis & Co. flabbergasted Wall Street by calling the whole deal off. No one could remember when an underwriter had ever done so before when a "firm commitment" had been made...