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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restore the balance of responsibility between labor and management. Something-and this was one bright light in a browned-out week-might be accomplished while memories were fresh. A wrathful Senate decided to get down to labor legislation. Senators voted 66-9 to act at once on the Case bill, a toothless version of which had been passed along by the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Time Has Come | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Atomic energy, discussions of its significance in peace and war, and a demonstration of the basic principles of chain reacting piles will feature Boston's "Salute To The Atomic Age," at which Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, will act as chairman in the Hotel Bradford Ballroom Monday night at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley to Preside at "Salute To the Atomic Age" on Monday | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

...name of Herbert N. Raab '47 was added yesterday to the special committee of four students and one faculty member whose responsibility it will be to select the delegate. Robert Watson '37, associate dean of the College, who represents the faculty, and Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, who will act as chairman, were designated last Tuesday along with members John C. Harper '46 and John C. L. Hulley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Reveals 6-1 Majority Behind Prague Delegate | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

...ultimate purpose of the conference, sponsored by many of the nation's leading officials and organizations, is to set up a permanent organization to act as a clearing house for international youth problems as well as to further friendly international relations and unify the world student bodies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll on Delegate To Youth Parley Slated for Today | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...attorney for United Fruit. Now he is United Fruit's vice president and general counsel as well as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong Democrat, Jackson classified himself as a "social-minded conservative." He promised to wage a vigorous campaign to revise the Wagner Act, to outlaw "unfair practices" by labor such as mass picketing and price controls by fall, eliminate all federal restrictions on building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Exit Eric | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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