Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a gross misstatement of fact in your story dealing with the efforts of a coalition of unions to try to force the Campbell Soup Co. into company-wide bargaining [Aug. 23]. You state: "Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.-C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry." This statement is as far from the true facts of the situation as it could possibly be. In 1966 and 1967, the Industrial Union Department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. led a coalition bargaining drive against...
Some of its members and funds travel across the Pyrenees from France, where there are 150,000 French Basques. Though generally less restive than their brethren in Spain, many French Basques firmly endorse the drive for independence and rarely miss a chance to let Charles de Gaulle know it. On the day he proclaimed, "Vive le Québec libre!", Basques broke out signs reading "Vive Euzkadi libre!" They also employ as graffiti an equation that at first glance is almost as incomprehensible as their language: "Three plus four equals one." It means that France's three Basque provinces...
Stretching the Rule. The SEC's current effort to force the exchanges to pare their commissions began only this year, but the drive to erase insiders' advantages in the stock market started long ago. The agency established in 1961, in the Cady, Roberts case, that a broker who buys or sells stock on the basis of inside information commits fraud. Such police work intensified after Lawyer Manuel F. Cohen, an austere career civil servant, took over as SEC chairman in 1964. In the Merrill Lynch case, the SEC contends that not only the inside-tip giver is acting...
...urban planning. A more effective fund raiser than administrator, he attracted enough money to complete $70 million worth of new buildings and push the annual operating budget from $22 million to $136 million. He had almost reached the halfway point in the university's current $200 million fund drive, and will stay on as president emeritus to finish...
Under Sterling, Stanford successfully conducted a $113 million fund drive and solidified its position as one of the best-financed schools in the nation...