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While the New York Yankees coasted last week, the Dodgers and Cardinals, like two groggy pugs, tussled with one another in St. Louis in a showdown series. When the fight was over, the Dodgers had won two of the three games, were in front by two full games (with 14 more to go), were made 4-to-1 favorites to take their first National League pennant in 21 years...
...their delight they discovered that they commanded a majority of votes. In one skirmish after another they routed the Lewis-Addes side. By week's end it was plain that Mr. Lewis was taking a pratfall. Showdown would be over ousting the Communists, beating George Addes, electing a new executive board with a Reuther majority on it. But the final showdown would be bigger than that. As the convention went into its second hot, tense week in Buffalo, behind the scenes the fight was on for control of U.S. labor...
...Greatly Surprised." Muley Doughton hit the ceiling. Red-faced and bitter, he called his committee together for a showdown. "This is a terrible hurt," said old Bob Doughton. "This is one of the hardest blows I have ever had." Then, his mountaineer anger getting the better of him, he told the committee flatly that he didn't intend to stand...
...week France rang with rumors, mostly inspired, that Germany had called for a showdown with Vichy, had given Marshal Petain the hard choice of complete collaboration-including surrender of bases in Dakar and French North Africa-or complete subjugation...
This made evident that Henderson wanted a showdown with OPM over who was really boss of civilian supply. Henderson thinks that he is, and that OPM is trying to muscle in. OPM, whose priorities powers are the No. 1 weapon for regulating distribution, thinks that he is merely its adviser. After Knudsen told motor-makers early this month that materials shortages would cut heavily into their 1942 production (TIME, July 14), OPM and its automobile industry committee sat down to work out details of the reduction themselves. They and the industry expected the cut would amount to at least...