Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensible enough way to end the strike without having Congress vote the machinists back to work, but it must have been too sensible. Siemiller conferred with his underlings and A.F.L.-C.l.O. Chairman George Meany, then backed down and ruled out voluntary arbitration. Later in the week, said angered Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, an agreement to settle the strike had apparently been worked out to the satisfaction of both sides-when the union once again changed its mind and withdrew...
...mediation board and keep workers on the job for up to 150 days more. Cautioned by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Meany that they should not take action that they "would regret for the rest of their lives," and placed in the unenviable position of offending organized labor in an election year, balky House Commerce Committee members haggled for days last week before finally approving by a 17-to-13 vote a bill virtually identical with the Senate...
Tearful on TV. What Britain's press bannered next day was a surprising Cabinet switch: Economics Minister George Brown, 51, the No. 2 man in the Labor Party, changed places with Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, 59. Brown, a devout believer in economic expansion, had tried to resign four weeks ago when Wilson made the decision that the pound could only be saved by a drastic dose of deflation. Wilson talked him into staying on until the bill was assured of passage. Then Wilson rewarded Brown with the job he had asked for when Labor came to power two years...
...noisy thing may turn out to be a mountain or a molehill, but on the chance of producing a verbal Vesuvius most publishers annually sponsor a series of these fictional eruptions, timing them to coincide with the great silence that descends on the book business between July 4 and Labor...
...actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types at elegant after-parties wolf their food...