Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Management offered no concessions, not even a pledge that if the union held the line on wages the companies would hold the line on steel prices. The letter set forth that the Steelworkers have no ground for higher wages, no need to "catch up," because their wages have risen more...
On the other hand, Mrs. Killborne said she had received no complaint that a landlord broke the pledge. If this happens, the Registry would drop the offender from the apartment list.
Then Elisheba Rachel Taylor repeated the pledge: "I, of my own free will, seek the fellowship of Israel . . . I believe that God is One, Almighty, All-Wise and Most Holy . . . I promise that I shall endeavor to live, as far as it is in my power, in accordance with the...
THE PLEDGE (183 pp.)-Friedrich Duerrenmatt-Knopf ($3).
This novel has most of the elements of a fine murder mystery, but is written far better than most and leaves the reader with a wry, ironic aftertaste. Swiss Author Duerrenmatt showed Broadway, in The Visit, how an existentialist allegory of human greed and corruption can be made into exciting...