Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made it in Cambridge, and 19 squeezed in at Hatfield Technical College, near London. Then St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, claimed 22 ("the smallest guys on the campus''-see cut). For the benefit of Modesto (Calif.) Junior College, the telephone company got into the act. warily provided a booth that provided room for 32. But the Modesto coup clearly could not stand unchallenged. For one thing, the booth was lying flat on the ground; for another, the telephone had been removed...
Sympathizing with the NAACP, the Society for Minority Rights is mainly concerned with the integration problem, though "itching to do some work on the McCarran-Walter Act, Puerto Ricans in New York City, orientals on the West Coast, and Mexicans in the Southwest." Its membership is around 25, of whom eight are active...
Drawing the Line. What the Justice Department hopes to prove in the I.L.G.W.U. case, and in a number of other indictments expected soon from grand juries sitting in Omaha, Chicago and other cities, is that labor unions are entitled to exemption from the Sherman Act under the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act only so long as they confine themselves to negotiating higher wages, or other legitimate labor objectives. When they step over the line and begin to use labor union power to fix prices and allocate markets, then the Justice Department intends to wheel up the big guns...
...early as 1954, the Antitrust Division began quietly bringing a series of apparently unrelated but actually closely dovetailed labor cases. They were intended to lay the groundwork for its campaign against labor unions which it feels have trampled on the Sherman Act, e.g., the Minnesota Milk Drivers Union enjoined from forcing stores to jack up the prices of milk so the drivers could collect larger commissions...
...against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers in the garment industry, charged that the prosecution of only one of his 500-odd locals was "a frontal attack by the Republican Administration against basic safeguards won on the picket line and across...