Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telling of labor's new wants for 1949. From the sidewalks of New York to the docks of Honolulu, the powerful C.I.O. and its 6,000,000 members were on the march. How far could they march, how much would they demand, in the midst of what Harry Truman called "a declining national economy...
...Grandview, Mo., while Harry Tru man's sister, Mary Jane, officiated down town at a cornerstone laying, brother J. Vivian Truman suffered a concussion and back injuries falling out of a hayloft...
...night outpouring of liquid Puerto Rican fellowship. Next morning, nevertheless, Muñoz was up bright & early to begin a series of conferences. At noon, natty in a white linen suit, he called at the White House, emerged after half an hour to report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug and Under Secretary Oscar Chapman. He conferred about air safety with the CAB, about dope smuggling with...
President Truman (Tues. 5 p.m., CBS, ABC, Mutual). From the Shriners' convention in Chicago...
...industry to a shutdown that would use up customers' stockpiles. Knowing this, steel union leaders were likely to walk cautiously, but CIO President Philip Murray showed no sign of backing down. This week, after getting both sides into a huddle Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching told President Truman that they were hopelessly deadlocked. Murray said this could mean only one thing, strike. Apparently, he was putting his chips on the hope of last-minute intervention by the White House...