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Actually, the strongest union argument in favor of a guaranteed wage in the big industries is that it would keep up buying power, and thus counteract swings in the business cycle. Few union men argue that G.A.W. would guarantee against a depression. But they do argue that guaranteed wage plans would prop buying power enough to check minor recessions...
...Council also authorized James G. Hatcher, Jr. '56 to investigate the publicity system here to find out methods by which the University is being improved in the eyes of the American community. The committee will attempt to recommend ways of publicizing the College in order to counteract the negative publicity it is "always receiving...
Theater people have tried every trick to counteract bad reviews. Some have taken big ads calling the critics names, made curtain speeches asking the audience to "tell your friends how much you enjoyed the play." (Recently Billy Rose, fearing a panning, persuaded the critics to stay away from The Immoralist while he held a week of "paid previews" in Manhattan to get the play in shape.) But in the end. most producers have learned to their sorrow that bucking bad reviews is expensive and fruitless...
...their stand. Washington's four-year-old Labor Press Associated, a news service supplying some 250 labor papers (for $2 to $15 a week), was forced out of business. Reason: labor trouble. L.P.A., set up in 1949 with money from the C.I.O., A.F.L. and some independent unions to counteract the Communist-line Federated Press, recently laid off one man from its Washington staff to keep down its $5,000-a-year deficit. But the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, which represents L.P.A.'s employees, said no. The hard-pressed L.P.A. was forced to rehire the employee and pay him more...
...very difficult to forecast your possible selection this year, because no outstanding figure emerged during the year. Eisenhower, Brownell, McCarthy, Adenauer, Pope Pius XII (he is always in the running because the Roman Catholic Church does most to counteract Communism), Malenkov, Truman, and the ghost of Harry Dexter White are all possible selections . . . Somehow, I can already see Joe McCarthy's face staring at me from your first issue...