Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That France accept limited German-sovereignty as a sop to Washington, London and Bonn...
...contract and not binding on the company), President Frank H. James gave his assurance that Norwalk would continue to be the company's center of operations. To the men who had trod the bricks for ten months, it was a face-saving gesture-and a costly sop. During the strike the workers lost more than $4,000,000 in wages, and the union went into debt by floating a $500,000 bond issue to support the strikers...
...flyer, returned to the steel business and worked his way up from riveter to production manager at Standard Tank Car Co. He was later hired as a salesman for Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary), climbed steadily until he became Weirton's president in 1936. In 1947 Mill-sop helped incorporate Weirton, W. Va., as a city (pop. 24,000), was elected the first mayor (salary: $1 for the four-year term). Under his administration the city built a hospital and a community center, extended water and sewers, to all residents, improved streets and sidewalks, without going into debt...
...rights of citizenship. Further, persons convicted of actual treason have every right of citizenship taken away. So the Administration's new bill would not deprive of citizenship a single Communist who would not already be in jail with his rights seriously curtailed. It seems little more than a sop tossed out to appease the witch-hunters...
Unappeased by this sop, Harvey looked around for somebody who could help him fight back at brother Roy. The man he found was George J. Kolowich, head of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., a banker who went to jail in 1933 for embezzlement, but who has since made a fortune in real estate and trucking. Last July Kolowich bought Harvey's 9% stock interest in Fruehauf, went to work to unseat Roy as president of the company...