Word: junes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruling in a North Carolina divorce case (TIME, June 4, 1945), the court had left some 4,000,000 U.S. divorced persons facing-in the words of the dissenting Justice Black-possible "criminal prosecution and harassment." By the time the justices had threaded an uncertain way through the states' already mixed-up divorce laws there was, in the bitter words of one justice, "no longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary...
...heat wave caught Canadian politicians in the final round of the general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...
...Liberal party, in power since 1935, an unruffled electorate was all to the good. Under Canada's British-style parliamentary system, the Liberals could call the election any time before their five-year term ended in 1950. They had picked the June date as the best one. It was too early for farmers to be upset by any threat of a crop failure, too soon for most voters to be deeply worried about Canada's darkening business outlook. Most important of all, the June election gave the fighting Opposition Leader, George Drew, the shortest possible time to organize...
...engraved invitations looked like those in many another June mailbox. They read: "Mr. Ham Fisher requests the honour of your presence at the marriage of Ann Howe to Mr. Joe Palooka on the afternoon of June twenty-fourth in your favorite newspaper." Last week Ham Fisher had already received formal acceptances from Chief Justice Fred Vinson, General Omar Bradley, and Attorney General Tom Clark...
Harvard, it appeared, had laid down a distinction for educators to consider. Only a week before, Harvard President James B. Conant had joined other members of the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association (TIME, June 20) in a finding that Communist Party members should not be employed as teachers in U.S. schools...