Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The strikes had been bound to come; the only question was who would lead them and who would lay the pattern for settlement. After nearly four years of the wartime no-strike pledge, union officialdom was itching to show its mettle, and prove its worth to its constituents.
With threats and pleas, he has held the C.I.O. together. When the Auto Workers were set to rescind the wartime no-strike pledge in 1944, Murray stemmed the tide with a speech delivered under heavy emotion. When occasion demands, he can be tough. When Sidney Hillman began to show signs...
Dr. Van Mook recalled Queen Wilhelmina's pledge of 1942: a new policy for the Empire, a Commonwealth composed of the homeland, Indonesia, Surinam and Curasao. Now was the time to set it up. He agreed with Premier Schermerhorn that full Indonesian self-government was out of the question...
Promise v. Fulfillment. The Russians had promised to begin evacuating Manchuria three weeks after the end of the Japanese war. Apparently they were keeping the letter, if not the spirit, of their pledge. The Red Army had withdrawn from much of southern Manchuria; by early December the evacuation should be...
Pledge to a King. President Truman had said that there was no record at the White House of a Roosevelt pledge on Palestine to King Ibn Saud. Truman was right only in the technical sense that the file was next door at the State Department.