Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceiling; Mrs. Condon had given Kent a Bulgarian's address, but there was no showing that the Bulgarian was a Soviet agent. The FBI, he cried, was a "stupid" outfit whose report had been based on "false and malicious" information. "Who attacks my wife," he announced, "must take me on. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover owes her a personal apology. I hope he is man enough to deliver...
...called captive operators. He wanted Big Steel to boost miners' pensions, and to give them shorter hours (perhaps a 30-hour week) without cutting pay. Otherwise, another long coal strike seemed certain. For shortly after his newly proclaimed "period of inaction" ends, the miners will take their annual ten-day vacation. And by the time the vacation is over, the miners' contract will have run out. If there is no agreement by then John Lewis has an old standby handy: "No contract, no work...
...offered to add 15% from city funds to the Russian offer. He told the strikers that the U.S., British and French commandants wanted them to accept the settlement. "I would not recommend that you accept this agreement, unless I had to," said Reuter. The strikers voiced their unwillingness to take any part of their pay in East marks. Cried one: "What shall we do with the other 25%-buy schnapps or ride on merry-go-rounds...
...commandants would back a Russian promise that there would be no reprisals against returning strikers. Said Reuter: "The Western powers are not small children who don't keep their promises." An angry striker yelled back: "It's too late. We know the Russians. The Western powers will take care of us-after we've disappeared...
When they got back to mustering-out camp in Virginia, Preston asked his young aide to take a permanent Army commission. But McCloy was already haunting the law libraries. Last week the general, now 85 and retired in Palo Alto (Calif.), described the scene: "One evening McCloy came to eat with me. I saw he was preoccupied. Finally he exclaimed: 'General, that abstract law is beautiful stuff...