Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State's presentation had been grave, cautious and deliberate. The reaction was in kind. In the Senate, no jingoistic ranters sawed the air. Only one Senator-Nevada's Republican George W. Malone -said publicly that he would vote against it. Most of the nation's editorialists gave their sober approval-with the notable exception of the nation's largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep...
...majority of newspapers, the New York Herald Tribune declared: "It is a pact for peace . . . essentially and inescapably defensive ... No nation that respects the rights of its neighbors need fear the pact; only a guilty conscience could see a threat in its terms...
...They would consider an armed attack on any one of them in Europe or North America an attack on all of them. Each nation would determine for itself whether it was necessary...
Next month, Dave Beck's agents will begin descending on drivers of the nation's 6,000,000 trucks, wherever they stop-for a cup of coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...
...sides finally accepted a presidential fact-finding board's judgment. The unions got their 40-hour week and a 7?-an-hour wage boost. They lost their argument for extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. The settlement would add around $300 million to the cost of running the nation's railroads in 1949, but the board figured that the railroads could afford...