Word: administra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressures or no, the 1956 steel strike symbolized something far more sig nificant for the long-range health of the U.S. economy. For the first time in a major labor dispute, the Federal Govern ment had played a role consistent with the "partnership" theory of labor-management relations. The Administra tion, without public threats or posturing, made it clear to both sides that it would take action in the interests of the econ omy if the shutdown continued much longer. Then, having made its point, it re lied both on economic and moral pressure to bring about a voluntary settlement...
...Millikin dissent left Clarence Ran dall a disillusioned chairman. A stronger report would have cost few additional dissents, but would have given Ike a far better bargaining position from which to deal with Congress. As it is, in order to get a strong new trade policy, the Administra tion will have to fight hard for all the commission's major proposals...
Strike! Appeal! Within a matter of hours, the alliance of Truman Administra tion and Steelworkers' Union plunged back into the fight to make seizure stick. In Cleveland, before a labor convention, Steelworkers' Boss Philip Murray had just finished an oration denouncing the steel companies when a phone call from his Washington headquarters told him of the district court's action. Out went his order: Strike at once. Before midnight, the walkout from the mills was under way, and the flow of steel came to a stop...
...Styles Bridges batted first with a soft paw. "Mr. Secretary," he asked across the table, "what do you consider a security risk?" With deadpan seriousness Acheson ticked off departmental regulations on treason, espionage, sus picious association and moral weaknesses that could be "preyed upon." His Deputy Under Secretary for Administra tion, John Peurifoy, added th statistics. Since early 1947, he said, 202 State Department employees (out of 17,000) had resigned in loyalty investigations; 91 of them had been found on morals counts...