Word: matters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, reflecting over his failure to break the deadlock, sadly summed up: "It's a matter of principle with both sides." Undoubtedly it was. But the people of the U.S. would have a hard time understanding just what the principle...
Actually the Murray-Fairless fight appeared to be less a matter of principle than one of various prides & prejudices. Fairless objected to Government fact-finding boards; moreover, he was outraged by Murray's settle-or-I-shoot tactics. Murray had sounded his war cry so furiously that now he could not retreat an inch. Nor did Murray want to face the slightest possibility of another labor leader (i.e., John Lewis or Walter Reuther) getting a better settlement than he could...
...Ford model required some careful looking over. It was not so much a matter of principles as practicalities. U.S. workers in the end might not like the idea as much as their leaders thought they should...
...matter of projects the Harvard chapter has a mixed record. As a result of efficient work by a handful of NSA officials in Cambridge, over 200 DP students entered American colleges this fall, seven of them at Harvard...
...course, the individual actors must get their applause. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and William Eythe were probably better than in most of their other pictures. Andrews was exceptionally good in the lynching scene itself. The whole mob, for that matter, formed a brilliant supporting cast...