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...German women tack their husbands' titles on to their own names. A classic German joke tells of the woman who called herself Frau Hatchet-Murderer Müller...
...them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough to be profitable. When one department fell behind, threatening a shutdown, a shop steward growled: "Look...
...Tack. With the sense of crisis gone, maneuvering in the Senate took a new tack. Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing...
...store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned stations at Washington's National Airport and along Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues...
While Geneva Gastons waited for facts, figures, and brass-tack concessions, delegates aired a show-me attitude toward U.S. willingness to buy from the world as much as she sold to the world. Dr. J. E. Holloway, head of the delegation from the Union of South Africa, was hopeful but skeptical. Said he: "[America] will, I hope, forgive us some little anxiety. She stands at the crossroads where her traditional antipathy to the free flow of international trade diverges from her new role as world leader. She seems to stand there in vacillating acceptance of her eminent and high destiny...