Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honestly objective thought, but I feel you have missed the real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
...could not understand how the jury could find the men guilty of armed robbery. Early Wednesday night, court room opinion had it that the jury would not bring in such a verdict because it had asked Judge Goldberg whether a smoke-bomb used in the robbery was "a dangerous weapon." The Judge replied...
Woman's Cruelest Weapon. During the war, Kay got to Washington. Some of the things she saw there (orange juice and fresh vegetables) she liked. But other things she did not like. Some Army wives she met "left a bad taste in my memory." She was "hurt, then angered at the slander of WACs overseas . . . How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost...
Formed in 1940 by one Abraham Stern as a terrorist weapon against the British, it had committed such deeds before. During the war, Stern offered to help the Axis invade the Middle East if they would recognize the Sternists as Palestine's government. In 1944 the Sternists murdered Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the Middle East...
...American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assesment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes. AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assesment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a ew legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act-DeMille is confidentaly returning to the fray...