Word: traded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent the Reds scampering for cover like scared rats. Lee Pressman was in town, but as far as most of the delegates knew, he might have spent the time hiding under a bed. It looked as if the C.I.O. was free at last to put up an honest, strictly trade-unionist front...
...Purge. Murray's attack was not to be taken as a purge, he said. It was simply in the interests of good trade unionism. He pointed an accusing finger at three unions which he said were falling down on the job of organizing the unorganized. They were Durkin's (office workers), Abram Flaxer's (federal workers), both left wing, and Samuel Wolchok's unruly department-store workers' union. Murray's denunciation was taken as a demand that the three union presidents resign. Said a surprised Wolchok, who has bitterly fought the Communists...
...echoed through the auditorium. Outside, a handful of Lebanese Communists had picked a fight with the police. They were driven off, but when the session was over the police were not satisfied. Lebanese Communist Mustafa Aris was in the hall as an accredited observer for the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate was clapped in prison, the director general...
...reports were months late, as if functionaries were afraid to let the world know the score. Though the last cost-of-living index appeared in March, labor argued that living costs had doubled in a year, and was out for higher wages. The last reliable official reports on foreign trade were for April...
Gloomy Evening. The bait that lured Benny to the younger network (beginning Jan. 2) was the same bait that, two months ago, detached Amos 'n' Andy from NBC (TIME, Sept. 20). Reports in the trade said that CBS offered a sizable (but undisclosed) salary for Benny's services. CBS would only confirm that it had bought his program for "somewhat more than...