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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude was "the public be damned," that steel was trying "to force a strike on the nation." Fairless wired Murray that he was being "dictatorial." Murray fired back that he would like to see Fairless (who was himself in line for a noncontributory pension of $50,000 a year) justify before the public his "attitude of horror towards noncontributory pensions and social insurance" for his workers. Fairless retired into silence...
...terse dictum, tailored it a bit and tossed it back in his face. Their message: "No contract, no royalty payments." The Southern operators, who produce 40% of the nation's coal, cut off their 20?a ton payments to the U.M.W.'s $90 million-a-year welfare and retirement fund...
...long, the phone rang in the Pentagon office of Navy Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. To each caller, blond, 46-year-old Captain Crommelin replied abruptly: "This telephone is tapped-you know that." The callers were fellow officers proffering him support. For John Crommelin had defiantly voiced what many of them thought, but had not dared to say: that the Navy's aviation was being destroyed under the guise of unification...
...Reliable. The machine clanked to a dismal crawl. But handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile...
...Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...