Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But at a time when Senators were itching to shut up and go home, the talkdown worked. At week's end, by a vote of 36 to 30, the Senate sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee. Nineteen Republicans joined 17 Democrats (mostly from the South) to put...
With varying degrees of exasperation and bitterness, the Navy's angry men pounded away last week at an astonishing variety of targets-the atomic bomb, the Air Force, strategic bombing, the National Defense Department, the basic U.S. war plan. In the klieg-lighted clamor of the House Armed Services...
To seal the grand alliance, Lewis proposed, the U.M.W. and nine affiliates of the A.F.L. should chip in $250,000 a week each to help Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers ward off "a vast and barbaric attack" on their union.
"Impossible." Murray, deep in trouble, learned about Lewis' offer from newsmen and reacted to it with the air of a man who will believe it when he sees the color of Lewis' money. Aware of Lewis' insinuation that the Steelworkers could not fend for themselves, he said...
As for the mineworkers whose own welfare and retirement fund was now shut off a few had their own ideas about a defense fund. "We believe a kitty should be raised to alleviate poverty in the mining fields first," said a 500-member Pennsylvania local of the U.M.W. in a...