Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain why he should not be held in contempt. Goldsborough was the man who, a year ago, had slapped him and his union with a $3,510,000 fine (later reduced to $710,000) for being in contempt in a similar case. There was a suspicion also that Lewis saw a chance to humiliate Harry Truman by throwing credit for solving the coal strike to GOP Speaker Joe Martin...
That was Tuesday. He saw the President at noon. At 3 o'clock he appeared at the State Department for a press conference-not on ECA but on Korea and Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered...
...Randall, Leverett coxswain, whose position Miss Grube endangered, saw the abortive attempt to muscle in as a 'Cliffe conspiracy to reassert its position on the Charles, lost last spring when the Annex boats officially entered permanent drydock as a result of financial inadequacies...
...Samborski was Wearing a dark and harried look yesterday. After rescheduling the twice-postponed opener with Boston College for today at 4 o'clock, the Varsity base ball coach got word that center fielder James Kenary had been operated on for appendicitis and a couple of more hours later saw night fielder John Caul-field got spiked in a practice drill...
...Communist influences as its ally, the Seafarers, was the one-man creation of bespectacled M. David Keefe, onetime Stock Exchange employee. Dave Keefe had started as a $15-a-week page boy; after 13 years he had worked himself up to $37. He organized the union in 1942, saw it almost fall apart after he joined the Seabees. He pulled it together again after war's end and, boasting a membership of 5,000, held contracts with both exchanges...