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But it meant nothing to Harry Bridges. His men were West Coast dockside workers. The Government offered them $1.37 an hour, whereas 700 A.F.L. longshoremen on the same coast get $1.38. Bridges wanted that extra cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Target: September 30 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Mapping out a plan of attack on next fall's housing front is turning Dr. Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, into a master strategist. When an undergraduate, he had an untidy roommate who owned fourteen suits and left them in fourteen heaps. Therefore, Dr. Perkins looks forward with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/28/1946 | See Source »

The sunken-cheeked, 62-year-old Auvergnat wore his usual white tie, looked more than ever like a peasant dressed in untidy Sunday clothes. But he was a peasant of genius. He took the measure of the High Court of Justice in Paris with a shrewd and baleful eye. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Devil's Advocate | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Bill Laurence has known more about the atomic bomb, at every stage of its development, than any other reporter. A topnotch newsman for the New York Times, he had watched, and ably reported, almost every big science story for 15 years. An intense, untidy little man with odd habits (he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Now It Can Be Told | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

First Steps. Sporadic shooting went on. Untidy odds & ends of combat took Allied lives, even in the Tokyo area where the orders of Imperial Headquarters could have been transmitted and should have been enforced most quickly. By the Japs' own admission, their planes attacked twelve Allied transports cruising near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Job for an Emperor | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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