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  • 111952 steel strike — on essentially the same terms the union had proposed four months earlier. [Marcus, Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, 1977, p. 253.] Wage control policy during the Korean WarOn February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph… …

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  • 12Roger Putnam — Roger Lowell Putnam (December 19, 1893 November 24, 1972) was an American politician and businessman. A member of the prominent Lowell family of Boston, he served as mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1937 to 1943 and as director of the… …

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  • 13Peter J. Brennan — thumb|right|170px|The official portrait of Peter J. Brennan hangs in the Department of LaborPeter Joseph Brennan (May 24, 1918 October 2, 1996)McFadden, Peter Brennan, 78, Union Head and Nixon s Labor Chief, New York Times, October 4, 1996.] Fink …

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  • 142005 in South Africa — See also: 2004 in South Africa, other events of 2005, 2005 in South African sport, 2006 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. EventsJanuary* 13 January Mark Thatcher pleads guilty to unwittingly bankrolling an alleged coup d… …

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  • 15John Sweeney (labor leader) — Infobox Person name = John Sweeney image size = 200px caption = birth date = Birth date and age|1934|5|5|mf=y birth place = The Bronx, New York death date = death place = occupation = President of the AFL CIO spouse = parents = John and Patricia… …

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  • 16Office of Defense Mobilization — The Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM) was an independent agency of the United States government whose function was to plan, coordinate, direct and control all wartime mobilization activities of the federal government, including manpower,… …

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  • 17Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad — Locale northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin Dates of operation 1916–1963 …

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  • 18Cochabamba protests of 2000 — The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as The Cochabamba Water Wars, were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia s third largest city, between January and April 2000 because of the privatization of the municipal water… …

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  • 192000 Cochabamba protests — Demonstrators demand removal of consortium and end of privatization of water works The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the Cochabamba Water Wars , were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia s third largest city,… …

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  • 20strike — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. hit, smite, beat, thump; give, deliver, deal; affect, touch, impress, occur to; blast; lower, take down; collide, bump; conclude, agree upon; attack; collide; walk out, quit, rebel, cancel; print. See …

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