Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand was the fact that in three key G.E. locals (Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass.; Schenectady, N.Y.), representing more than a third of the union's dues-paying membership, Carey could not get a strike vote. Though more than 40 other locals backed Carey, he was clearly not sure just where he stood. At the I.U.E. convention last month, he got the union's strike-vote clause changed from a required two-thirds of membership to a simple majority. "I have the authority to strike," he said last week, "but not the backing I think I need...
...they had, says Lanston, the Treasury issue could not have been successful, since neither banks, institutions, nor individuals had enough cash surplus to invest in Government bonds. While some speculation may have been excessive, says Lanston, the excesses tend to be self-correcting. "I am sure that a number of speculators will not want to try again soon. Their losses were too severe...
Author Berton's book is jammed with the tragic stories of tenderfeet who tried to reach the golden creeks by boat, over the dread mountain passes and even over a sure-death glacier route. Even those who found great wealth often lost it, to gamblers, business crooks, the girls, or over the bars. Carmack died respectably, leaving his second wife, a former brothel-keeper, a fortune. But Lucky Swede Anderson, divorced by his dance-hall girl, died pushing a wheelbarrow in a sawmill for $3.25 a day. Lucky always denied that he ever had a million: "The most...
...Parisienne (French). Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy...
...McGill, the Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, described the incident as a "harvest of defiance of courts and the encouragement of citizens to defy the law on the part of many Southern politicians." He warned that "it is not possible to preach lawlessness and then restrict it. To be sure, no one said go bomb a Jewish Temple or a school. But let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish to take the law into their hands...