Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Side-Steppers. Labor's defiance of the Act and its boycotting of the NLRB promised little for the NLRB to do in the immediate future, unless Bob Denham forced some action. Nobody else, particularly employers, seemed to want to get tough. In fact, just the opposite was the case. In advance of Taft-Hartley Day last week, many employers helped unions to beat the law's deadline and to evade some of its provisions...
...Screamed tough, wiry Communist Leader Otello Barbi: "You cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only...
...property the hardest thing to bear. Neill is particularly sensitive about the way students smash up his school. But he says that one has to face the fact that children are not possessive about objects. Furniture, says Neill, means nothing to a child. Everything at Summerhill is as tough and unbreakable as possible, but it is still difficult for adults not to lose their tempers when students tear up favorite books or shatter records. But, says Neill, the children don't mean any harm...
Died. Pearl L. Bergoff, 72, tough, unlettered Michigan boy who grew up to be the nation's most active strikebreaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Bergoff once offered management an expensive but efficient service: he would ship hired thugs to the scene of a strike, keep business moving with pate cracking and machine-gun fire until the union backed down. Driven out of business in 1936 by-federal legislation, Pearl retired, mellowed, announced last year: ". . . If I had my life to live over ... I'd be for labor, I'd be another John L. Lewis...
...cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically and spiritually...