Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides-Joe's men and the Communists-shouted "Mutiny." They called off the fight long enough to march in a body on the ship owners to demand a 25% wage boost. But this was only a truce in the face of the common enemy, as they...
...Jungle. Today, while the Indies wait upon The Netherlands' reaction to the pact, a truce-but no peace-prevails in Indonesia. The Indonesian Army, led by hotheaded young General Soedirman, continues to snipe at units of the 92,000 Dutch troops under Lieut. General S. H. Spoor. Actually, in Java the Dutch hold only three small areas: the cities of Surabaya, Semarang and a corridor two to six miles wide connecting and including Batavia and Bandung. Of Java's 51,000 square miles, the Dutch hold perhaps 380 square miles. In Sumatra the Dutch control three areas...
...each day passed, John Lewis worked harder & harder at dangling unspoken offers of truce. The bait was not taken. Lawyer Clifford reasoned that when the other side was talking settlement, that was just the time to hold firm...
Five years ago Lewis won a coal strike on the day the Japs struck Pearl Harbor. In 1943 he had called off a strike 15 minutes before Franklin Roosevelt went-on the air to make a personal plea to the miners to return. Last spring he had announced a truce three hours before he was due to answer a summons to the White House for a showdown with Harry Truman. Now-In the Basement. On Saturday afternoon Washington newsmen got a terse notice that Lewis would speak to them at U.M.W.'s massive headquarters (once the University Club...
...name meant nothing at all to most voters was no oddity in long-suffering Chicago. Republican mayoral Candidate Russell William Root had been hand-picked by Governor Dwight Green, who sent him over to the Tribune Tower for approval. Colonel Bertie McCormick, who had long maintained a cynical truce with local Democrats, rumbled his assent. After what had happened to the Democrats in November, he was sure the G.O.P. could now take the mayoralty-with anybody...