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Word: acceptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 450 landlords, who originally wanted to be listed with the PBH Housing Reigstry, changed their minds when asked to accept roomers on a nondiscriminatory basis, Mrs. Jane Killborne, PBH Housing Secretary, revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 450 Leasers Will Not Sign PBH Pledge | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...anger was these promising senior scholars had not yet realized that to be a scholar implies a strong degree of moral conscience, than the life of the mind demands a commitment to responsible moral action. It is this statement, so important for an academic community to understand and accept, that has perhaps been lost amid administrative desires to avoid paternalism and bad publicity...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Student Representative: Academic Alienation | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...break down. He attributes the responsibility for the deterioration of East-West relations more to the American Open Door policy than to Soviet machinations and seriously underestimates Russian expansive tendencies. It is at best only half-true to accuse American leaders of attempting to "force the Soviet Union to accept America's traditional conception of itself and the world. And to say that "in every case but one, Russia retreated from these efforts [at territorial aggrandizement] in the face of America's vigorous opposition" slurs over the fact that the "one" case (if in deed there was only...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: An Overseas Frontier Basis of the Cold War? | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...labor-racketeering bill. The measure, now before the Democratic legislature, provides fines and imprisonment for labor leaders who 1) charter paper locals, 2) use union funds for personal profit, 3) buy stock in corporations with which they bargain collectively-or have bargained with over a three-year period, 4) accept gifts from companies with which they have bargained. Under the same bargaining terms, it also sets up a maximum of a $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment for any union member or employer who does violence to person or property during a strike.* Unveiling the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Labor's Love Lost | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Actually, McDonald could accept much less. He has beaten down last year's dues revolt in his own union (TIME, Sept. 29), and need not act tough to impress his membership. Nor does he have to bring home a whole ham to keep pace with the wage gains won by other unions. The United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther settled for a modest increase that poses no threat to steel's position as one of the best-paying big businesses. Steelworker gross earnings averaged $2.88 an hour last year, 35? better than autoworkers and 75? better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL NEGOTIATIONS: The Issues Dwarf the Arguments | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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