Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Roosevelt's job as California's Democratic boss was at stake last week as he squared off for a showdown with the party's State Central Committee. Trying to ride the bumpy road between California's right and left-wing forces, he was headed for the ditch (TIME, July 28). So Jimmy made a hard right turn...
...thunderous noise in the ears of Democratic State Chairman Jimmy Roosevelt. It was not a groundswell he heard; it was a political fusillade. For months, by sheer industry and charm, Jimmy had tried to steer the party down the political middle. The party would not steer. A powerful right wing, headed by National Committeeman...
Last week, as it has to most businesses, the first strike came to a major U.S. bank, the Brooklyn Trust Co. What touched it off was the discharge of three employees who were members of C.I.O.'s left-wing Financial Employees Guild, which has been trying to organize the bank. (The union claimed that 65% of the employees got $35 a week or less, and even had to buy their own pencils.) As a starter, the union massed about 150 pickets-many from other unions-outside the bank's main office. A number of them got their heads...
...Today he has six flying schools, more than 300 private planes and some 35 freight-flying lines at his field. No matter how harebrained their plans, Wehran is willing to let the freight flyers set up shop at his field. Some ex-Navy pilots flew in a folding-wing torpedo bomber a fortnight ago. In delivering freight, they plan to fold the wings, run the plane through the streets to their destination...
...national committee of the Communist party issued a call at a meeting in New York City on February 23, 1946, Steele said, for "the immediate formation of a coalition of left wing elements into a third party" early...