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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrender of the Pie Cards. Thus Murray brought to an end eleven years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Run | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

The aero mechanics, however, proved surprisingly indigestible. They called off their strike and set out to fight Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Indigestible Union | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

A court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chug-Chug | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

There was neither minister nor music at the funeral service in Denver last week for Oscar O. Whitenack, 79, who for eight years edited the "Open Forum" column of the Denver Post. When a handful of mourners gathered at the flower-covered coffin they heard the voice of Whitenack himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: A Perfectly Rational Funeral | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

"This is my funeral," came a voice from a recording made four years before. "I am an atheist and have been for many years. I have the utmost contempt for theological nonsense. Clergymen are moral cowards. Miracles are a product of the imagination. If any four reporters were sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: A Perfectly Rational Funeral | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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