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When Conservatives nominated him for President last March, Millionaire Businessman Mariano Ospina Perez moved from his Norman castle in Bogota to a modest, two-story bungalow near by. Last week he prepared to move again. His address after Aug. 7:Palacio Presidencial. Elected when two candidates split the Liberal vote,* Ospina Perez would be Colombia's first Conservative President in 16 years...
...vengeance he called out 53,000 mine workers in 1941 and wrecked the Mediation Board which Franklin Roosevelt had set up in an effort to keep labor peace while the country armed for war. He split labor apart. Congress was so incensed that it was ready to torpedo national policy just to sink John Lewis...
...period of eight months in 1943, he harried the nation with coal strikes, split the Administration, humiliated Franklin Roosevelt, and virtually wrecked the War Labor Board, as he had wrecked the Mediation Board. In return for only the smallest of gains he brought down upon his head once more the wrath of Congress. It was a blunder. More than any other man, John Lewis was responsible for the Smith-Connally Act, the boomerang labor law which Congress passed in an effort to curb...
Long Division. In Buffalo, a motorist wearied of waiting for a slow freight to pass, climbed out of his car, pulled a coupling that split the train in two, drove...
...Liberal Party that after 16 years in office, fat, flush and divided, had endorsed not only Colombia's advanced labor code but the principle of the annual wage as well. What had caused most of the campaign excitement, and all the Conservatives' glee, was the Liberal split...