Word: banged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fiorello! An uneven but lively and enjoyable musical that brings back an engagingly dynamic La Guardia and his gaudy, high-kicking era with a bang...
...management is trying to do too much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now, leave the local work rules until later. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell rapped labor for holding to "status quo at any price," and reproached management for "attempts to change by the bang of a single gavel working habits built up over many years." A renewal of the strike in January, said Mitchell, is "unthinkable...
...bureaucracy refused to forgive Bang-Jensen even in death, belittled his fight over the list of Hungarian witnesses as the obsession of an unstable crank. But if Bang-Jensen was obsessed, it was a magnificent obsession...
...twist of circumstance: the same pistol had been used as a suicide weapon in Washington back in 1934 by a Commerce Department official who had borrowed it from the owner. The owner got it back from the District of Columbia police, later sold it to a gun shop, where Bang-Jensen bought it in 1941 to use in case he found Nazi agents prowling around the legation of the Danish government in exile...
Died. Povl Bang-Jensen, 50, Danish diplomat attached to the United Nations, who was fired from his job for "insubordination"; by his own hand (gunshot); in New York City (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...