Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The President, in seizing the $28,000,000,000 railroad industry, smashed back the heaviest assault made on the Little Steel formula since John Lewis' attack. By doing so he served sharp notice on the millions in union labor's legions that the formula must hold; that the...
The "work stoppage" was contrary to labor's no-strike pledge. While all four papers hurriedly sponsored news broadcasts, the War Labor Board ordered printers back to work. To bosses of the union, which had had similar disputes recently in Newark and Salt Lake City, WLB sent a demand...
> For the postwar world, Dewey favors a U.S. alliance with Britain and, if possible, with Russia and China. He stands for international cooperation, including a pledge to use force against aggressors to prevent future wars. Says he: "We must be prepared as a nation when victory comes to assume our...
"The no-strike pledge has lost its usefulness. . . . We are now, despite the President's noble speeches, making war millionaires at a rate which, when a belated accounting is had, will make the profiteering of World War I look like a WPA payroll."
The Cause. A small clique of powerful, reactionary men has long suppressed democracy in Argentina. Since 1942, when Argentina adhered to the Pan American solidarity pledge at Rio de Janeiro, the power of this clique has been threatened by one vital issue: the question of continued Argentine relations with the...