Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory came despite his head-on collision with an inner tube within the first quarter mile of the mile long race. Although he stopped dead, the House singles champion recovered quickly enough to pass Oxford oarsman Harry Quick 1GBA freshman Bart Thomas, senior Ned Ames, and math instructor Hartley Rogers...
...Laurette's mistakes as an actress was that she used herself up on plays written by her husbands. When she married the popular but lightweight British Playwright J. Hartley Manners, it was both a real love match and a tacit contract to become his star for life. Together they became rich and famous (Peg 0' My Heart, One Night in Rome), but it was plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London...
Laurette hated illness, and when Manners became ill with cancer, her answer was to drink more heavily. She took his death as a personal affront. Long after, she would say: "I could never understand why Hartley was taken away from me. I mean to speak to God about it when I see Him." Laurette fought her alcoholism by herself, and she finally conquered the ugly sides of her own character. She became kinder to others, frank with herself. It was a matter of pride with her not to give up alcohol entirely but to learn to control it. This...
...localities. In the South, the supporters are Democrats; elsewhere they are mostly Republicans. Main argument for outlawing the union shop: workers who do not wish to join a union are coerced by contracts requiring them to do so or lose their jobs. Main argument against: under the federal Taft-Hartley Act, unions represent whole groups, members and nonmembers, and laws forbidding union-shop contracts encourage "free-loaders," who pay no union dues...
Labor. After reporting that fewer working days were lost through strikes in 1954 than in any other year of the past ten, the President renewed his recommendation that the Taft-Hartley law be amended to improve further the relations between management and labor. Another recommendation : that the minimum wage be increased from...