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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategic Errors. That was John Lewis' way of repairing some grave errors in his own strategy. When the miners' contract ran out nearly three months ago he had modified the traditional "no contract, no work" policy by ordering all his soft-coal miners east of the Mississippi on...
Then a sizable bloc of Southern operators, led by Island Creek Coal's President James D. Francis, dusted off John Lewis' own terse dictum, tailored it a bit and tossed it back in his face. Their message: "No contract, no royalty payments." The Southern operators, who produce 40...
At one point, he swore he "could not remember" where his only child was born in 1942, later on produced glib details of his own life in kindergarten, nearly 40 years ago. He blandly told the court that the name "Philip" appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or...
In Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in...
To the French, who had not been consulted in advance, the British move seemed a unilateral slap at "European unity." Since the French had already devalued several times, they now cut the franc loose to find its own dollar value on a free market, expected it to steady at about...