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Thrush and everyone else knew that the real issue was John L. Lewis, manipulator of the grab-bag District 50, which raids all kinds of unions, savage enemy of Franklin Roosevelt, contemptuous underminer of A.F. of L.'s wishy-washy president William Green ("I have explored the mind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis Rebuffed | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Others insist that in his later life he copied his own pictures to make enough money for his charities to fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nonpoisonous Painter | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

But the West Coast valued safety more than vegetables, more than the comfort or livelihood of foreigners who might be innocent but were still foreigners. Francis Biddle's measures struck most West Coast citizens, indeed, as wishy-washy, especially in giving aliens one to three weeks of grace to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENEMY ALIENS: Scare on the Coast | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Next day the note-passing continued. Finally Knudsen and Hillman worked out a wishy-washy compromise which settled nothing. The big committee was disbanded. In its place was formed a subcommittee of three management and three labor men, with towering, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching, industrial-relations director of United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: OPM Flops Again | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Great Britain. The BBC, to the much-enduring Britishers, has been a wishy-washy washout, broadcasting mainly late news, and such humdrum as the state of the wallabies at Whipsnade Zoo, the views of ruddy British workmen that things at home are not so bad. But in German, to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fourth Front | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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