Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days by an injunction obtained under the Taft-Hartley Act. When the injunction ran out last week, shippers offered Bridges a carbon copy of the agreement which had been accepted by East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes unions: let the hiring halls operate as before, until the courts rule on their legality...
Bridges would have none of it. He would have no strings attached to his hiring halls. And, if the Supreme Court should rule them illegal, that would .be the end of any contract with Harry Bridges. When the shipowners rejected his demands, Bridges stalked out, flung back: "See you on the picket lines tomorrow...
...West Indies. "After all, you can't change that day. It's the Queen's day." But four days later, after a strenuous round of parades, reviews and parties, the Queen whose birthday it celebrated put her name on a parchment and-after 50 years of rule-was queen no more...
...doormat. Inside was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . . . was referred by the King to the Minister of Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful consideration and has decided that ... an exception to the general rule . . . may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears...
...Brooklyn Dodgers walked victorious off the field one night, because everybody on both sides had forgotten an old baseball rule. In the ninth inning, with two out and the tying Pittsburgh Pirate runs on base, Brooklyn's Manager Burt Shotton put in a relief pitcher, then yanked him with the count only three-and-one. At the time, nobody objected. But in the clubhouse after the game, an ex-sportwriter advised Pittsburgh's Manager Billy Meyer to protest: the Dodgers had violated Rule 17 (a relief pitcher must handle at least one batter). Confessed Manager Meyer: "I pulled...