Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with more than 1,000 of the day's editorial and mechanical crews absent, Executive Editor Wood admitted defeat. He announced that the W-T & S would not publish that day. For the first time in Guild history, it had succeeded in shutting down a struck New York paper. The big points at issue were job and union security and wages. The Guild wanted the right to arbitrate any "economy" dismissals, and a virtual Guild shop, i.e., nine out of ten eligible employees must be Guild members. Management refused to arbitrate, and offered to maintain the existing proportion...
...oath, but the remaining 13.5 percent were intransigent in their refusal to swear to any oath other than the regular oath of allegiance for state employees. On that date, after a three-hour closed session with Governor Warren presiding, the Regents voted 12 to 6 (with six members absent) that if any employee did not sign the oath by April 30, his "connections with the university would have been severed...
There was no comfort for Lucas in the results. An almost solid phalanx of Southern Democrats stood against him. Such Administration stalwarts as Tydings of Maryland and Frank Graham of North Carolina, who was engaged in a bitter primary fight, managed to be absent. Six Democrats from western and border states voted against cloture. Lucas was able to count only 19 Democrats in his camp. From the other side of the aisle, 33 Republicans, including the ailing Vandenberg, gave Lucas more embarrassment than satisfaction by coming out loud & clear for cloture; only six Republicans turned up on the side...
...Cabinet (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS-TV). The first public meeting of the Cabinet (Secretary of State Acheson absent), from Chicago where they are part of the cast of President Truman's "nonpolitical" tour (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...gentlemen on the Council then. In a very large, impersonal group the students found it hard to make friends and tended to ban together in small cliques of men with their own special interests and positions. The most valuable element of college living was absent, they said, because a student couldn't meet men of diverse backgrounds and interests...