Word: hartley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That turned out to be only partly true. McGovern dutifully voted the labor line much of the time, but he flunked one crucial test. He voted against cutting off a filibuster that was preventing a vote on repeal of the right-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act-a sacred matter with labor. He subsequently cast many other votes that were considered antilabor. To Meany, he was an ingrate. He made no notable effort to conciliate the labor chieftain. Typically, he said that since he had made a mistake on right-to-work, Meany should confess that...
...Lake City to Minneapolis, are an ulcerous businessman (Ross Elliott) and his steadfast wife (Jeanne Grain); a jolly jazz musician (Roosevelt Grier); a United States Senator (Wal ter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under...
Bridges probably would have kept the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union out even longer had the 18-week dispute not brought the Nixon Administration and Congress to the brink of tough antistrike legislation. Last fall Nixon invoked the Taft-Hartley Act's 80-day cooling-off period to suspend the West Coast dock walkout. When it expired on Christmas Day and the strike resumed last month, the President revived a proposal sent to Congress last year and menacingly renamed it "The Crippling Strikes Prevention Act." A key provision would have enabled the President to name...
...year history of the Taft-Hartley Act, the Federal Government has sought 80 day cooling-off periods in 28 major labor disputes, pleading that "national health and safety" required an end to the strikes. The Government was never refused. During the current dock strike, the Attorney General contended that the failure of 200 Chicago longshoremen to load $75 million worth of corn and soybeans for export imperiled the national economy. Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz found the Government's case for an injunction "far less reasoned" than required. "Some harm or threat of injury is regrettably a natural, indispensable...
...Phillips Brooks House Association yesterday announced the election of its new officers, to serve for the year beginning March 1, 1972. The new President will be Mort Hauser '72-3, of Dudley House and Litchfield, Illinois; the new Vice-President will be Robert M. Hartley '73, of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio...