Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William M. Leiserson, Mediation Board veteran, now a Johns Hopkins professor, recommended a permanent national mediation board to sit with management and labor before future disputes reached the strike stage. ("But make no mistake-no legislation will be a cureall. . . . Leave this current crisis alone and it will solve itself-and soon.") Senator Harry F. Byrd advised his colleagues to pass a law forcing unions to incorporate, register with SEC, report their finances and election procedures, assume responsibility for any breach of contract...
...Secure the Peace." Tardily, after the unsoldierly hubbub of homesick G.I.s had reached a stage of near-mutiny (TIME, Jan. 21), Chief of Staff Eisenhower had forbidden any more soldiers' demonstrations on pain of court-martial. Now he told why he had put the brakes on demobilization and thus touched off the rumpus...
...airmen (who will drop the bombs) think so. Brassbound Navymen hold that atomic explosives are just another weapon: they may modify but they will not wipe out their seagoing fortresses and flying fields. This week, top Army & Navy ordnance men and atomic bombers were down to the i-dotting stage on plans to settle the question...
Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
...applause went on for two minutes when she came on stage; the house was full, and 100 extra people crowded onto the stage, which was decked with enough floral tributes to do justice to a gangster's funeral. But tall, ample Lotte Lehmann, one of the greatest sopranos of her fading day, making her 18th annual appearance at Manhattan's Town Hall, still nervously clutched a handkerchief as she sang Schubert's Müllerin song cycle. Said she, afterwards: "The first concert in New York is always difficult. The heart goes like that! It is like...