Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear me!" exclaims the archdeacon, and well he may. He has just been informed that the Holy Grail, the very chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper, sits at that very moment in his own parish church at Fardles. The archdeacon rushes home and hides the battered old cup in a cupboard, but almost before he can say Sanctus he is conked cold, and the Grail is hijacked by one of the Devil's disciples...
...first indication from ministerial level that the voting may be imminent...
...hubbub caused by steel and coal strikes during recent weeks has obscured what may very well be the deciding factor in the negotiations still ahead; the delicate political position of Philip Murray as he attempts both to reach a settlement with the steel industry and maintain his leadership of the brawling...
Murray is suffering from a five-way squeeze play. He is under pressure from industry and from much of the public to compromise before a stoppage that may cripple the economy; but this is the least of his worries. He has to go before the national convention of the CIO in less than a month with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing...
...seems that politics and not economics will decide Murray's course, whether or not he is correct about the pension question. He may or may not be right; but he won't have a chance to reach his decision on those grounds. It is unfortunate for the entire labor movement that this man, who has played this one hard but fairly and wisely all the way, should be boxed in by his own people...