Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negotiator Dring promptly came to terms with 23,000 long-distance operators in 42 states for an average increase of $4.40, and the rush was on. Freed from policy-committee control, locals signed up all across the Midwest; with Southern Bell; with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone in Maryland. By week's end nearly 50% of the strikers had agreed to weekly wage boosts averaging $3 to $4. Picket lines of Western Electric installation men still kept most of them from the job, still prolonged the official end of the strike, but for the N.F.T.W. it was all over...
...afternoon in July 1912, after a long week of bargaining, arguing and good Maryland rye, the Democratic Convention at Baltimore picked their man. The argument about their choice has been going on ever since, and this book will...
Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers had won a surprise victory in 1944, but he was too predictably dull; Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings stood too far to the political right; New York's ex-Senator Jim Mead had been beaten to a frazzle by Tom Dewey last November; and New York's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was just a little too unpredictable. New York's present Mayor Bill O'Dwyer fitted a lot of the requirements, but he is constitutionally ineligible, since he was born in Eire...
...home from Virginia, he had stopped in Washington to visit old friends. At the naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, he chatted with Cordell Hull. In Harry Truman's White House office, the P.M. talked alone with the President. Presumably, besides discussing common defense problems, they also made plans for the President's visit to Ottawa-some time in June, the P.M. said later, and "the President plans to bring Mrs. Truman with him, and possibly their daughter Margaret...
Rowing with the tide on the Severn, a salt-water inlet, the Varsity sweep-swingers covered the distance in nine minutes flat. Coach Tom Bolles' worries about the Maryland weather went for naught as the day was judged a good one for racing...