Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tired Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had just said that he would seek reelection, flew back from a Mexican holiday to see what it would take to quiet Mike Quill...
...large garage behind his comfortable 32-room Italian Renaissance home, he maintains the offices of the Harold Lloyd Corp. There President Lloyd and 15 employees take care of scattered real-estate holdings and handle an occasional movie. The last thing he acted in was Preston Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Howard Hughes, who bought it, is still cutting...
Three weeks ago the National Dock Labor Board (representing management and labor) refused to let the dockers go to work on any ship at all unless they unloaded the two Canadian ships. When troops were called in to take the place of the wildcat strikers, they stayed away from the two Canadian ships. Using troops to unload them would have settled the dispute, but the government knew what it was doing...
...soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
...Communist Central Committee exhorted: "Dyke guards must display the spirit of throwing in their lot with the common people . . . the tendency to take care of one's self at the expense of the interest of the masses must be eliminated...