Word: truce
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...Galluses snapped, furious fingers waved, but the Senate did finally agree to a truce. Labor legislation was shelved until April 20. First bill then: fire-breathing Texas Tom Connally's seize-freeze bill to freeze existing labor contracts, to provide for Government seizure of wartime plants if they had a labor ruckus...
Although die-hard labor-baiters still vowed that they would finally abolish the 40-hour week, the battle (TIME, March 30) seemed to have lapsed into a temporary truce...
...Middle East, was defeated as Conservative candidate in a by-election. Winner (by 367 votes) was an unknown Independent candidate, William Denis Kendall, black-haired, blue-eyed, 38-year-old manager of a Grantham war-production factory. It was the first time in 44 elections since the Party truce went into effect that a full-fledged Conservative candidate had been defeated by an Independent...
...Kelland was so busy being a Republican in the last year," the Herald Tribune snarled, "that he could not seem to get excited about the German menace or the Japanese menace or any other national issue. While Mr. Willkie was pleading for a truce in politics with respect to foreign affairs, Mr. Kelland was kicking the Administration in the shins. . . . Now he is out pleading for politics and more politics. He does not say criticism . . . but politics. Perhaps a wronger choice could have been made by Mr. Martin. But we can't think just how. . . . The Republican Party...
...Labor Leader Lewis it was a big and gratifyingly noisy success. To the U.S. it was time wasted that could never be bought back. To the miners themselves it was another weary walkout. Before a truce came last week to the sooty soft-coal hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the strike ordained by John L. Lewis had cost some 200,000 miners a week's wages, had cost the defense program at Carnegie-Illinois* some 30,000 tons of steel (enough for 3,000 light tanks or 30 destroyers...