Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today forced a 48-hour extension in the captive coal strike truce after he had warned steel executives and mine union leaders that the Government will be forced to resort to strong measures--probably seizure of the mines and anti-strike legislation--if production is stopped...
What was Mediator Davis' chagrin to have Boss Lewis drop a time bomb in his lap at week's end. Mr. Lewis suddenly proclaimed that there would be a deadline to the truce...
Seizure of Air Associates was the result of President Roosevelt's conviction that President F. Leroy Hill had flouted the National Mediation Board, OPM AND THE War Department, during months of senseless wrangling and hostilities. Mediation Board Chairman William H. Davis had negotiated a truce whose terms required C.I.O. to disperse several thousand picketers who patrolled the gates, required the company to reinstate immediately C.I.O. union workers (125 of them, said the union; only 51, said the company...
...British people reject this notion with a firmness second only to their rejection of the idea of a truce with Hitler...
...breathing spell will follow the Nazi campaign in Russia. Hitler will try to make peace. Rauschning does not believe the British will accept a truce, or the Russians either. But the German military machine is worn down by its losses in Russia-Hitler cannot hope to invade Britain for another year at least. Nor can Britain hope to invade Europe. Therefore a sort of undeclared peace will follow World War II, while Germany prepares for World...