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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. could use the NLRB unless all of its top officers signed affidavits. Lewis explained his refusal boldly: the way to beat the Taft-Hartley Act was to ignore it completely, even to boycotting the NLRB. Other hot-eyed labor leaders had a different interpretation-Lewis, whose miners seldom used the board, was attempting to use the Taft-Hartley Act as an instrument to dominate all of labor...
Goes the Money. Prices at the 16-day fair were higher than ever: Cokes, 13? hot dogs and hamburgers, 25?; coffee, 10?; rides, 25?; ice cream sticks, 25?. But prosperous Texans seldom batted an eye. Hundreds "took in everything," spent as much as $50 a couple...
America's soccer team, which very seldom has gone anywhere in world competition, is picked in regional tryouts similar to those of baseball. The best men in the regionals then go to the finals--in 1936 it was in Brooklyn--when the final squad is picked and a couple of weeks then remain for the coaches to make the players into a team. In 1936 Andrew Guyda, the Crimson Freshman soccer coach, played wing and halfback for the American team which lost to India, the squad which eventually copped the world title...
Many a Third Army veteran will read with some surprise that hard-riding General Patton was "a hero to his men" and that he was generally called "Georgie." To most combat men, he was "Patton," their general and a good one, but they were seldom taken in by the publicity Patton courted. Most line troops resented his flashy, self-designed uniforms, sardonically muttered "our blood and his guts," when they heard his pre-battle exhortations. No Third Army infantryman could have written such stuff-&-nonsense as this: "An attack might appear suicidal, but if 'Georgie' ordered...
Abraham Lincoln distrusted biographies and seldom read them. His son, Robert T, Lincoln, shared his distrust; he included in it the biographers of his father. He seldom gave them help and never encouragement. As a result, when Lincoln scholars recently scrambled to Washington to see the Lincolniana that had been ordered sealed until 21 years after Robert's death they found few surprises and no answers to some of the major questions abou Abraham Lincoln's life...