Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union dues than the usual $1 per month from miners' pay -the increase had been voted at the last U.M.W. convention. A majority of the anthracite miners opposed it then, vowed they would never pay it. They were outvoted by the more numerous bituminous-coal workers, traditionally loyal to Lewis. To the hard-coal workers, this meant placing additional millions from their own slim pay checks at the disposal of Absentee Landlord Lewis. They bided their time, and when the checkoff came, they struck. It was as simple as that, and as complex...
Millions of loyal radio fans will miss them. So will Henry Ford, who writes fan letters, J. Edgar Hoover, James Thurber, Vincent Astor, and countless others whose addiction approaches that of the late Arthur Brisbane, who sometimes telephoned breathlessly after the broadcast to find out what would happen in the next episode...
...pursued, absenteeism will almost certainly increase. For under indiscriminate rationing of luxury, as well as essential, goods, all workers share alike, no matter what they earn. The more likely alternative is that universal price ceilings will give, and a controlled inflation will take place. This would penalize many a loyal worker, but it would at least maintain incentives for every man to work hard in the knowledge that he could use his money to bid for such luxury goods as are available on the market...
...Henri Honore Giraud, the old escapist, had been picked for this role before the U.S. forces landed, but when he reached North Africa Darlan was there ahead of him and he had voluntarily yielded to Darlan. Now it was a question whether those North African leaders who had remained loyal to Darlan and Vichy would accept Giraud as their chief...
...from division, especially in the ranks of the minority group. The all-out struggle for final domination, the 1944 convention, will determine whether the lessons of G.O.P. defeat have been absorbed, or whether the surge of the conservatives has carried them to control. In the meantime the nation's "loyal opposition" must be split down the middle, with both liberal and conservative elements contributing to the eventual weakening of the Republican candidacy in the next presidential campaign...