Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After years of stubborn rebuff, C.I.O. had succeeded in getting a signed contract in a Bethlehem Steel plant (through its affiliated Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers). It had signed up Westinghouse for the first time on a nationwide basis. Where would labor, angrily watched by its enemies, anxiously watched by its friends, head during the next few months? On good industrial relations depended the defense program. Labor still maintained its right to strike, it still struck (seep...
Willing New Dealer in Roosevelt's first term, he cooled noticeably following the Court-packing plan and Reorganization bill, sealed his change of heart with a studied rebuff of the President's invitation to go to South America as an "observer." Ardently pro-Willkie in 1940, he rapidly disowned him for supporting the Lend-Lease Bill. Then, so successfully did he plug isolation that in no time he was ranked among the top half-dozen chief U. S. "appeasers." Not even the Hearst chain, Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune or Joseph Medill Patterson...
...from grimy Limehouse and other East End slums. The once pro-Nazi Lord Redesdale, whose daughter the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford came home from Naziland with a bullet mysteriously embedded in her throat, offered his big London house to 90 homeless people (TIME, Sept. 30) but received a rebuff. The first family to arrive from East End slums were Jewish. On being told they might have what had been the bedroom of Hitler-admiring Miss Freeman-Mitford they left in a huff. But by last week Hon. Unity's bed was slept in by Jews...
...similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge. Yale declined the offer. Mr. Harkness then went to Harvard, gave grateful President A. Lawrence Lowell $11,392,000 to establish a house plan there. When Yale changed its mind, decided it wanted a house plan, too, Mr. Harkness forgave its original rebuff, gave it $12,000,000. For similar plans he gave Lawrenceville School $3,000,000, Phillips Exeter $7,000,000. He also gave large sums to his own preparatory school, St. Paul's, and to Phillips Andover, Hill, Taft...