Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albert Smith Bigelow, former Housing Commissioner of Massachusetts, will act as narrator of the touring play Which Way the Wind?, to be presented at New England Mutual Hall tonight and tomorrow...
...demanded an across-the-board wage slash for employees, while the Four Brotherhoods and the non-operating unions have insisted upon an unconditional boost. Item 2: The industry demands the right to change work rules hallowed by tradition and by the seemingly partial administration of the Railway Labor Act; labor categorically refuses any such changes. Item 3: Management has taken out six-month insurance to cover overhead in the event of a prolonged stoppage...
Even more than in the steel strike, the public has great concern with the length of the probable strike. At present, there seems to be no way by which to avoid it completely. Under terms of the Railway Labor Act, the government can delay the start of the strike a fair length of time; the President can invoke measures leading to an emergency negotiation board and can exert subtle pressures in other ways. The Taft-Hartley Act provides the final governmental check...
...letter to Lawrence G. Derthick, U.S. Commissioner of Education, explaining the University decision, President Pusey stated that, "It is our earnest concern, while the matter of continuing or expunging section 1001 (f) (1) is still under consideration, to take no action which might possibly be considered as approving the Act as it now stands." He pointed out that a bill which would remove the disclaimer affidavit requirement from NDEA is now in Congressional committee...
After months of official indecision, the Corporation has withdrawn from the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act, and given substance to Harvard's protest to the required Affidavit of Disbelief. In itself, the withdrawal is commendable, but it is both overdue and incomplete. For, if the NDEA affidavit is "lamentable and dangerous," as President Pusey has said, the identical loyalty requirement in the National Science Foundation Act is equally deserving of University rejection...