Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roll-call vote, repeal of 14(b) passed 221 to 203, and the bill now goes to the Senate. Under its provisions, "right-to-work" laws in 19 states would be voided, and in any firm where a union persuades-or forces-management to agree to a union shop, a worker who does not join the union within 30 clays can be fired...
Paul A. Porter, and the firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter emerged as one of Washington's top legal offices...
Fortas' devotion to the law. His wife Carolyn, who was his student when he was teaching at Yale, is now a member of his firm and is one of Washington's shrewdest tax lawyers. Husband and wife together draw an estimated $200,000 to $225,000 a year, drive a 1953 Rolls-Royce to their office in a converted Victorian mansion, are now moving to a $250,000 house in Washington's Dumbarton Oaks area...
...long ago, the Manchester Guardian pronounced: "The Russians and the Americans no longer have any reason to quarrel." And there is a widespread school of chop logic that maintains simultaneously: 1) Russia can no longer be seriously regarded as a threat to the West, and 2) by its firm stand in Southeast Asia, the U.S. is inviting Russian retaliation. Both premises are debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger of such wishful thinking, as the State Department's Walt Rostow has warned, is that "out of a false sense that...
...Afrika Korps Lieut. Reinhard Mohn developed a command of English and an affection for American ways. Mohn returned to Germany and took over his family's small 111-year-old C. C. Bertelsmann publishing company, read all that he could find about U.S. management ideas-and made the firm the colossus of the West German book business, ten times larger than its nearest competitors. Lately he has made himself West Germany's movie king as well. He has bought the famed but financially troubled Ufa studio, and last month he acquired a 50% interest in Munich...