Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Ford II, after reading the steel fact finders' report, said in effect to his executives: "There's no reason why we should have this shoved down our throats. Let's take the lead on pensions." Last week Ford's Vice President John Bugas offered Walter Reuther an 8 3/4 ?-an-hour, company-financed pension...
...Political & Security Committee had decided in which order it would proceed with the business in hand: debate i) Greece's complaint against her Communist neighbors, 2) the Italian colonies, 3) Russia's proposal for a Big Five "peace pact," 4) Palestine, 5) Indonesia and 6) the report of the Security Council. The committee had just disposed of item No. i by passing the Greek issue on to a conciliation commission when it had to make room on its agenda for a new problem. The Chinese had placed a formal charge before the Assembly that Moscow had violated...
...into the region two years ago this month. As 650 national conference delegates tented on the maharaja's once inviolable polo field, a five-man U.N. commission quietly pulled out of the maharaja's riverside guesthouse and left town. It was bound for Geneva to prepare a report on its failure to win an agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir...
...report from Trieste revealed that Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, about to take a motor launch from Pola to Fasana on the Adriatic, waited on the dock while advance men made a security check. Sure enough, they found and heaved overboard a time bomb which had been strategically hidden under the marshal's seat...
...mineworkers are after. (They already have a non-contributory pension plan.) Green, AF of L head, is using the same reason to knock Murray's handling of the CIO--like Lewis, he doesn't think much of presidential fact-finding boards, and is using Murray's acceptance of the report as a club to attack...