Word: luckmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bears average 227 Ibs. in the line. Key. man in their T-formation attack is shrewd, 197-lb. Sid Luckman, 29, who does most of the thinking and all the passing. He leads the league with 1,826 yards gained by passes. His ball-carrying backfield mates are virtually middle-aged men (average: 28)-shifty halfbacks Hugh Gallarneau and Dante Magnani, fullback Bill ("Bullet") Osmanski...
...game, Margarita played the entire first period for George Halas' eleven against the Chicago Cardinals on December 1, carrying for considerable yardage and two first downs. He caught a fifteen-yard pass for another first down, but early in the second period, after taking a pass out from Sid Luckman, quarterback in Bear T-formation, suffered a sprained ankle when hit by the Cardinal backer...
Both Big Business and Big Labor must call a halt to "socially destructive selfishness." The abuses of big labor should be rectified. But, said Luckman, the reformation of business must precede the reformation of labor. To reform itself, business must "stop making noises like a corporation." It must work to restore a sense of "togetherness" between management and labor. It must show that management and labor have the same interests by backing 1) decent minimum-wage legislation, 2) higher educational appropriations, 3) annual wage plans, 4) pension programs. It should do this, if for no other reason, because it paid...
With such a reformation, Chuck Luckman foresaw a rosy future. He told the super-marketeers: "Your business ... can and should double during the next generation if the leadership of American business is willing to establish as its objective for 1970 a standard of living for the American wage-earners which is at least 100% higher than the level of today...
...Republican landslide, said he, should give business "a favorable Government climate to conduct its stewardship." But there was danger in it, too-the danger that "complacency may lead us in business to slide back, and to revert to past attitudes of indifference and unconcern for the people." Warned Chuck Luckman: "That attitude was repudiated once before. ... It can be repudiated again...