Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oklahoma's taste in governors has run to flamboyant showmen like sulphurous old "Alfalfa Bill" Murray or gregarious millionaires like outgoing Governor Bob Kerr. With the inauguration last week of Roy Turner, a well-heeled oil-&-cattleman, Oklahoma got a little of both...
What worried Lee Pressman and other union leaders were the effects of the suits on the whole body of the Wages & Hours Act. Last week, the Senate started hearings on bills to slam the door against portal pay suits. The one which really raised the hair of unionists was the bill of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart. It sounded reasonable. The bill would prohibit suits against any employer who had "acted in good faith" to obey the Wages & Hours Act. But under this bill, which many Congressmen favored, unionists knew that it would be almost impossible...
...companies had allowed for travel time in the contracts. (Many another union which had run to court was finding out the same things.) At week's end, the C.I.O. was coming around to Bill Green's way of thinking. But until Congress changes the Wages & Hours Act, courts have held that out-of-court settlements did not relieve employers of liability...
Four months ago, hard-pressed Yale raised its tuition to $500-the maximum the Government pays for veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Last week Yale announced a second round of tuition raising-up to $600 a year, effective next fall. The raise would make Yale tuition the Ivy League's most expensive...
Pete Harwood, the Crimson's ace pole vaulter, finished second in his department with a hoist of 13 feet, while Bill Lawrence's 12.6 jump earned him third place. Both Varsity sprinters, Harvey Thayer and Bob Toppan, failed to place against a classy field of 50-yard dash contestants, although Thayer reached the semi-finals, and the Harvard two-mile relay team finished third in a field...