Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...
Under a Manhattan auctioneer's gavel went 65 gold, gem-studded snuffboxes and watches collected by the late great Tenor Enrico Caruso...
Smith's new president is Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a bush-browed, pipe-smoking social scientist who looks younger than his 49 years. He was born in Texas, went to Texas public schools (in Austin) and the University of Texas, spent World War I as a private in Texas, and married a Dallas girl. In the early '20s, he took a Harvard Ph.D., later moved north and joined Harvard's faculty as an instructor in government...
...striking gravediggers of Calvary Cemetery went back to work last week. For seven days, New York's Cardinal Spellman had led a corps of seminarian strikebreakers (TIME, March 14). A delegation of strikers' wives had visited the cardinal without result, and charges of "Communist domination" and "union busting" had flown back & forth. Then the striking cemetery workers, having cut loose from the Red-edged Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America, C.I.O., got a new charter as Local 365 of the Building Service Employees, A.F.L. The day the charter came through, the cardinal sat and talked things over...
...previously by the cardinal on condition that the men return as non-union individuals. Cardinal Spellman waived the condition, recognized the new union. Both sides agreed to set up a three-man panel to investigate "future adjustment of hours." The cardinal's seminarians laid down their spades and went back to their classes...