Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other changes, all designed to meet labor's criticisms, one of the most important would continue the ban on closed shops but permit employers to give unions priority on jobs, thus opening the door to the hiring halls supposedly locked up by the Taft-Hartley Act. There would still be bans on mass picketing and jurisdictional strikes, but the ban on secondary boycotts would be slightly relaxed. The new Taft bill would also require management as well as union bosses to sign non-Communist affidavits ; lift Taf t-Hartley's ban on workers voting in a plant election...
Dimitrov was acquitted (but still held by the Nazis); his half-witted fellow defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was beheaded. A year later, Dimitrov was finally released to Russia, in exchange for some German spies the Russians had caught...
More Austerity? Sir Stafford's system of planned austerity and bilateral deals, under attack at La Muette, had met still graver difficulties in London. A near-panic on London's exchange had sent government bonds plummeting to new lows for the year; in a single week the value of gilt-edged consols (government bonds) dropped by close to ?250 million. Said the London Economist: "The truth is that the crisis which the British did not expect until 1952-and hoped to be prepared for by then-is already upon them...
Cripps had no such intention. His remedy for the crisis was still the same: more austerity and more import cuts. This week he will meet with Dominion Finance Ministers who have been invited to London to discuss ways & means of conserving the sterling area's dollars...
...clock in the Cháteau de la Muette struck 12, Cripps was still droning on, and the old payments scheme had expired. No new agreement had been reached...