Word: tobin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiercely lashing out at "sit-down strikers" of 1946 who are withholding vital necessities from the public in the hope of inflationary price rises, Maurice J. Tobin, Governor of the Commonwealth, last night urged the Government "to seize a portion of the cattle now grazing on the ranges of the West. We drafted men to fight the war--there's nothing wrong, or as it has been charged 'Communistic," in our drafting meat to feed the American people.." He spoke at a Democratic panel sponsored in Rindge Hall by the Cambridge Chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...second of two non-partisan political rallies, the American Veterans Committee chapters of Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Somerville, and Watertown will present leading Massachusetts Democratic candidates, including Governor Maurice J. Tobin, at a meeting in Rindge Hall tonight at 8 o'clock...
...Meat is not flowing into Boston markets in any sizable quantity," said Durant yesterday. "We are picking up a little meat here and there, and we will probably see some on the tables today, but how long this condition will last nobody knows, not even Governor Tobin...
...control. They shouted down their leaders' pleas to accept one proffered settlement, shouted down proposals to return to work pending an agreement on wages & hours. They blocked many nonstriking drivers from working. They had just about choked off the metropolitan area's supplies of food when Dan Tobin stepped into the situation. He telegraphed an order: the nonstriking unions must abide by their contracts; sympathy walkouts must...
Wheels within Wheels. Tobin's orders set hundreds of trucks rolling again. They averted an immediate food shortage, saved hundreds of thousands of workers from layoffs in building and other industries. But by week's end the pinch applied by the three striking locals began to take effect. Two large food chains (A. & P., Safeway) closed their 730 stores; about 1,000 other such stores were nearly out of supplies...