Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson's murder, an unsettling echo of labor's internecine wars in the '30s, came as a grisly epilogue. His career had been built on his crusading efforts to prove that the union's entrenched leadership had for years been a party to "sweetheart" contracts and other schemes to hold down rank-and-file wages in exchange for cumshaw from grateful contractors...
...course, chosen by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and they emphasized the quiet campaign he has begun to reopen negotiations with the Six for British entry into the Common Market. Those negotiations, broken off in 1963 by De Gaulle's blunt veto, were not very popular with Labor at the time. For Harold Wilson to espouse them today is as surprising as it is important for Britain and Europe...
Like a Spaniel. During the British election campaign two months ago, De Gaulle offhandedly suggested that Britain might now be welcome in the EEC. When Tory Leader Ted Heath immediately challenged Wilson to respond, the Labor Prime Minister cuttingly retorted: "One encouraging gesture from the French government and the Conservative leader rolls on his back like a spaniel." But scarcely a week after his reelection, Wilson revised his Cabinet to give two ministers, George Brown and George Thomson, special responsibility for paving a road toward Brussels. They soon were dropping hints all over Europe that Labor wanted in, and fortnight...
...Labor's about-face is possible in part because many of the reasons that led the party to oppose the Tory bid five years ago no longer apply. At that time it was concerned about preserving Commonwealth trade ties. But the Commonwealth nations are trading increasingly within regional areas, and since 1964 Britain's trade with Europe has exceeded that with all the Commonwealth put together. Getting Britain's six partners in the European Free Trade Association into the Common Market no longer seems as pressing a problem either. Austria has been negotiating with Brussels...
...Oriental literature at Cornell, who reluctantly decided that there was no hope of reforming Judaism from within. Giving up religious practice, Adler in 1876 undertook a series of Sunday morning lectures on contemporary moral issues. Among his early followers was Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of Labor...