Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor: Right-to-work proposals, on the ballot in California, Washington, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, set off the greatest Big-Labor registration drive in history. It was generally assumed that labor's get-out-the-vote efforts could only help Democrats. But by last week a good many labor leaders were not quite so sure. Right to work itself seemed to be holding its own in almost every state where it was a direct issue. And there was a real possibility that some of the voters urged to the polls by labor might themselves vote to curb labor...
...been involved in administrative work since 1942," he notes. "Now I want to get back to the business of writing books." Wright will have this opportunity next year as the recipient of a grant to study at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California...
...half of the $41,420 prize goes to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 33, of the University of Wisconsin and the other half to Drs. E.L. Tatum, 49, of New York's Rockefeller Institute, and George Wells Beadle, 55, of the California Institute of Technology...
...their effort at semantic contortion, the Republicans would classify most non-Southern Democratic candidates in the same political category as Lenin. The image, however, will not stick when applied to Clair Engle of California, Prof. Gale McGee, Wyoming; Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota; Ernest McFarland, Arizona; Thomas Dodd, Conncticut; William Proxmire, Wisconsin; and Philip A. Hart, Michigan. These Senate candidates are no more radical than the President himself. The difference between the Democrats and Mr. Eisenhower is the difference betwen vigorous, imaginative administration and stand-pat, muddle-of-the road government...
Dean James Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California, in the first of an informal series of chats; the opening show's guest is Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, a bible writer in his own right...