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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide pensions, medical care and other benefits for members. Last week New York's State Insurance Department, making a fast public audit of a dozen-odd union funds at hearings in Manhattan, proved that some union officials are firm in the philosophy that benefits should begin with the guardians of the funds. Samples...
...Troubles Begin. As the strike went on, Japan learned more about Natsukawa's kindly ways. For example, any Ohmi girl who married despite all the difficulties had her wages cut "because of decrease in efficiency." Such stories put public opinion behind the strikers. Natsukawa countered by offering strikebreakers a handsome $1.25 a day, plus cigarettes and sake. He sent a fleet of light planes to shower Tokyo and Osaka with 10 million leaflets, distributed thousands of matchboxes, floated huge balloons over Osaka with his message: "The All-Japan Textile Workers Union is destroying Japan's industry through Communist...
...skills needed for their own atomic program. Discussions will shortly take place on cooperation with countries planning to build their own research reactors." The U.S. was, he said, about to negotiate with Belgium on the building of an atomic tower reactor in that country; this week detailed negotiations will begin with Canada, and negotiations with other nations will swiftly follow...
...casual passerby, everything looked normal around the University of Maryland's treeless new Georgian campus at College Park last week. Fall classes had yet to begin, but in Byrd Stadium, Football Coach Jim Tatum ran his 54-man squad (Pennsylvania mining and mill-town boys outnumber the 19 home-state boys) through first practice with high hopes of repeating his undefeated 1953 season. But across campus, in an ornate, walnut-paneled office, the U. of M.'s new president, Wilson Homer Elkins, 46, held his first press conference. Said he casually: "I don't think that...
Authors Rorty (journalist and self-labeled Taft Republican) and Decter (former political editor for the Voice of America and self-labeled Stevenson Democrat) begin with the sound premise that in the Roosevelt and early Truman Administrations, a number of Communists and fellow travelers slipped into the Federal Government. This fact, Rorty and Decter point out, gave McCarthy a solid runway for his take-off as a Communist fighter in 1950. They grant that the furor caused by McCarthy did help to bring needed attention to the problem of Communist infiltration. But at about that point, the credit side of their...