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...treaty. But ratification was assured. Juan Peron was also reported to have promised U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith: 1) to nationalize six Nazi businesses; 2) to sell 30 more to Argentine citizens; 3) to deliver at least some of the wanted Nazis to the Allies. This last was the nub of the business, and the State Department wanted action, not paper promises...
This time it was Tacoma's burly, New Dealish Congressman John M. Coffee, a man who had inveighed with truculent zeal against Franco, scrap for Japan, and big corporations. Nub of the committee's case: Coffee had taken a $2,500 check from Eivind Anderson, a Tacoma contractor, after helping him get a $93,517 wartime construction job at Fort Lewis...
...more he mulled it over, the more Editor Hardy felt that it was he who had the apology coming. Last week he wrote another editorial. Its title: "Freedom of the Press Cannot Be Displaced by Mob Rule." Its nub...
...members were getting as much as $10,000 a year and wanted up to $19,800, and 13 of the nation's airlines. Unlike most unions, the pilots' association wanted to bargain with each airline individually. Unlike most employers, the airlines wanted to bargain as a group. Nub of the dispute was the speed, weight and payload of new planes, notably the Constellation. The pilots wanted more pay for flying the faster four-engine planes...
...Brush. Terrain over which the Truman Administration hunted them was thick with underbrush. Clausen's Case Co. has had plenty of labor strife. The nub of the present trouble is a letter written by union leaders in 1937 which recognized: 1) the right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...