Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Murray had loyally followed Lewis. During the past year, though he had won the approval of most men in C.I.O., and many a man outside, he had received not one public pat on the back from Wrong John. Lewis had sulked, talked loudly offstage, tossed many a sour cabbage from the wings. Finally he tossed a bomb-the union-shop argument that ended in the captive-mine strike...
...p.20). A revolt was on: part of it led by men who were not opposed to intervention, but were opposed to moving against enemies abroad without first cracking down on defense strikes at home. They were bolting out of anger at John L. Lewis, and the Administration's pat-a-cake labor policy. Some of these could be wheedled or hammered into line, some could be bought with a promise of a crackdown on Lewis. But the biggest opposition came from men who on each measure had searched their minds and their hearts honestly and with humility, who wanted...
...elevens of Jim McDonald may be expected to make a better showing in November than in the earlier stages of the campaign. For like the Harlow system, McDonald's strategy emphasizes the perfected command of individual talents and closely-knit teamwork. It takes time to get those things down pat...
Emanuel Shinwell said flatly: "I am beginning to think that it is not in the public interest that members of the present Government should remain in office." Eden Stands Pat. The Government stood pat. Though its hold on the people seemed weaker, its hold on a Parliamentary majority was unquestioned. Speaking at Manchester, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said: "We shall take no action to gain a transient popular favor. . . . War is a long-term business. The issue will not be settled by any sudden, brilliant improvisation. Not one of my colleagues in the War Cabinet would pretend that ... we have...
Died. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., 81, pioneer meat packer, president (1910-26) of the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago. Onetime stockyard cowboy, he and his brother Michael worked for Armour & Co., later established their own business. In 1900 Edward Sr. ransomed his son Edward Jr. from Kidnapper Pat Crowe for $25,000 in gold...