Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high hopes that the Sixth District's rank-and-file union members will not necessarily blame him for their economic troubles. Seventy-seven percent of the hourly wage earners answering a Chamberlain poll last March said they believed both labor and management should renew then-existing contracts "to avoid possible labor strife...
Raoul Salan-oldtime professional soldier and no man to be caught in the midst of a fight if he could help it-characteristically tried to avoid trouble by keeping these orders to himself. Relentlessly, De Gaulle forced his hand. One morning last week an aide came into Salan's office to find the general shaking with dismay. "Paris," wailed Salan, "has published the directive...
...simple ideological label. "I'd like to be thought of as a lawyer," he says. Southerners searching for a clue to his approach to desegregation could find it in a 1956 decision in which he rejected the Hillsboro (Ohio) school board's contention that, to avoid overcrowding, integration should be postponed until a new school building was completed: "The avoidance alone of somewhat overcrowded classrooms cannot justify segregation of school children solely because of the color of their skins.". The quality that a judge needs above all, as he sees it, is fairness: "Fairness is really what justice...
...preoccupation with the world at large and with his diplomat's tendency to avoid sharp edges, Pope Pius often neglected the Vatican itself. He seemed to shrink from making much-needed appointments to the central machinery of the church. Result, at the time of his death: 15 vacancies in a superannuated College of Cardinals, no Secretary of State, no governor for Vatican City, no camerlengo (see The Succession). Said one of his closest advisers sadly last week: "He provided badly for his successor...
...change in philosophy among creditors. In the '305, a man who fell a month or two behind in payments lost what he had bought on time. But banks, finance companies and stores now realize that what is good for the consumer is also good for them. To avoid repossessions they go out of their way to rearrange terms, give the borrower a better break. Chicago's Talman Savings and Loan announced in June that people who had had loans for two years and lost their jobs could skip their payments for up to six months...