Word: hold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year-old contract a year ago. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that has since ripped apart what was once a quiet, tight-woven community in what begins to look like a lost cause...
...fact, never since Napoleon had government and culture so complemented each other. When Giraudoux's Electre opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has the privilege of seeing all new performances first; so, in "deference to General de Gaulle," the critics should hold up their first-night reviews until he could get to the theater on the second night. The grand opening of the opera fortnight ago, where Maria Callas had once complained, "I am not going to sing in those dusty decors," was the most glittering in history. Outside, the Republican Guard stood...
Behind Landry's complex system of blitzing linebackers and slanting linemen is a single master principle: funnel the play to the inside so that Sam Huff can make the tackle. Says the Los Angeles Rams' Line Coach Don Paul: "We hold a special meeting to plan how we're going to get Sam Huff." Huff has perfected the linebacker's risky technique of guessing where the play is going and meeting the runner head-on in the hole. From hours of study, he knows what plays may be run from any formation. To discover which...
Throughout his career as a hard-digging reporter, tough, growling Ray Brennan nursed his doubts about the Touhy conviction. Somehow the case kept crossing his path. In 1950, for example, having left the A.P. and gone to the Chicago Sun-Times, Brennan got hold of the secret transcripts of the testimony before the Kefauver crime-investigating Senate committee made by the then Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff. (Brennan was indicted for impersonating a federal employee, but the charges against him were dropped.) The testimony, as printed in the Sun-Times, showing that from gambling the candidate had become...
Besides those who directly hold shares in corporations, there are nearly 4,000,000 mutual fund and other investment company shareholders who indirectly own a piece of U.S. industry. Added to these are millions protected by corporate pension funds, which last year bought 30% of new stock issues. The United Mine Workers' welfare and retirement fund holds nearly $4,000.000 in common stocks, gets over $195,000 in dividends...