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Word: schwellen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time being the problems were still in the hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shadows | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Washington, once the strike was on, John L. flicked his eyebrows at the operators and Labor Secretary Lew Schwellen-bach, who had tried, certain of failure, to prevent the strike. Everybody, including Lewis, knew that just for the asking he could have the same 18?-an-hour increase which the steel and auto workers had won only by long hard strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Flick of an Eyebrow | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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