Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the United Steelworkers' convention last September took up a resolution to raise members' dues from $3 to $5 a month-and incidentally hike President David McDonald's pay from $40,000 to $50,000-the union president twice reminded the delegates that he did not want...
By last week the dues protest (TIME, Nov. 26) had snowballed into the biggest revolt in the Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000...
Charles S. Benson, assistant professor of Education, in a report submitted to the Massachussetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action at a convention yesterday, said that expansion of industry in the state has placed a heavy demand on the school system to provide more and better-educated workers.
Also discussed at the convention was a proposal for state tax reform, announced Friday by Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, state chairman of the ADA, has asserted that both fiscal and educational fields of state government are "in desperately bad shape."
Victorians, because of their tradition, aren't always very attractive. In fact, oftentimes they are a down-right bore. So Mr. Merrill has cast aside play-writing convention, and has plopped his 1856 Victorians right into the midst of Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their...