Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent to Hawaii for the negotiations, argued that a refusal to arbitrate proved that Hawaii's business interests were out to push organized labor off the islands. Big business at least seemed determined to clamp down on the kind of troublemaking unionism that Harry Bridges and his union stand for. Arbitration on the docks, they argue, would lead to arbitration in Hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries, where the I.L.W.U. has 30,000 members. What is more, they said, Harry Bridges' union had frequently abused arbitration agreements on the mainland. A fact-finding board appointed by Governor...
This surrender of the senses is seldom averted by the city's more conventional scenery. Downtown Los Angeles has genuine smoke-stained old brick and stone buildings, jammed together as tightly as those of Philadelphia or Baltimore. Hundreds of old-fashioned clapboard houses stand uneasily in the sun along its older residential streets. But the visitor in 1949 is apt to stare at them less in recognition than in disbelief, like a wanderer pushing through the vine-hung ruins of Angkor-Thorn...
...Attorney John Kelley Jr.-the man who prosecuted Axis Sally-didn't even bother to stand up. Quietly, almost sympathetically, he began cross-examining the 28-year-old Barnard honor graduate, onetime employee in the Department of Justice, who is on trial for espionage...
Lawyer Lloyd Stryker's voice lifted in pride and reverence last week. "Call Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter," he said. Dressed in an ordinary brown suit but robed in his uncommon prestige, little Justice Frankfurter stepped to the stand. He had come from the Supreme Court to Manhattan to be a character witness for Alger Hiss, his onetime Harvard law student, on trial in Federal Court for perjury. The Government had rested and Alger Hiss had begun his defense...
Still robed in his prestige, little Justice Frankfurter left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...