Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapin's maps in TIME, to LIFE'S series on the History of Western Culture, and other purposes. The latter include answering letters from readers taking spirited exception to one or another coat of arms that TIME and LIFE have printed. The nice thing about the subject matter, Weston says, is that it allows for equally spirited replies...
Over & beyond all that was the matter of the national welfare. "A wage increase in steel," the fact-finders reasoned, "would be urged as a pattern to be followed in other industries; this in turn might well cause price dislocations . . . interruptions to production might ensue." Steel workers themselves "would run the risk of losing more than they had gained." Said the board: "In general, it seems desirable at this time to stabilize the level of wage rates . . . the union [should] withdraw its request for a general increase in rates...
...Matter of Imagination. There were other possible adjustments, on which the British and American climates did not yet agree. It was most improbable that a U.S. loan would be asked or offered. It seemed that no concrete plans to reduce British production costs and increase industrial productivity would be laid on the conference table...
...Communists, has learned fast what many people never realize about the Communists. Says he: "The Communists are like small children breaking a toy, but unlike the children, they are not innocent; their tactics are those of wartime; they are warlike criminals. They are resolved to get power no matter by what means, and I am just as resolved to check them. In Japan today, the general tendency is that a person must be kicked front behind before he moves forward. Since I move forward without any pushing, I am accused of going...
...year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who asked St. Laurent to come to Ottawa to discuss "an urgent matter." Next day, St. Laurent was asked to join the cabinet as Minister of Justice...