Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagner Act, which was vital in 1935 to guarantee the right of labor to organize, has certainly become an unbalanced law with the growth of union strength; and the Taft-Hartley Law, passed in an aura of bitterness in 1947, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to cover a multitude of labor-management problems by federal legislation. But the closed shop is a basic labor right, and must be guaranteed by federal statute; equally important is protection against stoppages in industries vital to the national welfare. On other items, a single federal law would be too broad to cover...
...policy of the CRIMSON never to use race, religion, or skin coloring merely to identify persons in the news; the CRIMSON considers this a divisive technique. The CRIMSON made no consolous attempt to devised from its policy in the article and headline cited by Mr. Wolf. In this instance too much haste and too little reflection resulted in a journalistic error which has been regretted as much by the CRIMSON as by its readers...
Percy Bridgman '04, professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and George Wald, professor of Biology, will attempt to answer this question at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Littauer Auditorium. The forum will start the spring half of the 1948-49 lecture series of the Student's Association for Natural and Social Sciences...
...windows of the promised land. The young couple was Rumanian, the slim youth Polish. To get there, they had endured years of homelessness, hunger, danger and bitter waiting-and now that they had arrived, they could not expect to stay. They were illegal immigrants, caught on a last desperate attempt to smuggle themselves into the U.S. Temporarily, they were at liberty on bond...
...Sheets. Next day Halvard Lange discussed the Soviet note with Norway's cabinet. The note emphasized the fact that Norway has a common boundary with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...