Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd said the same with its placards, on which the paint was hardly dry. "Down with Truman," they said. "Break with Truman . . . United Labor must defeat Truman. . . . Labor must organize a third party now." And on a sign in the background that ugly word "Fascism" appeared. "The hell it can't happen here," trumpeted the sign. "Fascism is here today...
From close presidential advisers came word that Harry Truman would probably veto the Case bill. If he did, it might restore some labor support to the uneasy Democrats...
Last week, devout Catholics who were also Rotarians were told by their spiritual father, Bishop Eugene Limoges of Mont-Laurier, that this was wrong. In a 900-word pastoral letter read from all diocesan pulpits, Bishop Limoges said: "Catholics cannot be neutral [in effect, they cannot divorce their social life from Catholicism]. . . . Instead of frequenting non-Catholic . . . clubs, they should establish, for themselves exclusively, similar associations." Specifically mentioned: Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Moose...
...labor-relations expert on management's side. When several of his baseball-playing friends told him their troubles, he advised them, half kidding: "Form a union." Before Bob Murphy knew it, he had formed the American Baseball Guild. Some of the boys spread the word at spring-training camps. One of their toughest jobs was selling ballplayers the idea of paying 50?-a-week dues...
...given up. It is trying to rally Colorado citizens to help fight its battle, though most Colorado officials favor Big Steel. C.F. & I.'s best hope is that the Department of Justice, which has the final word on Geneva, may not approve the sale to Big Steel. However, most steelmen thought that WAA would not have made the announcement if Justice had not informally approved. If it wanted Geneva operated by private industry with its own capital. Justice had no other choice. The University of Utah's Professor J. R. Mahoney, who has made the definitive study...