Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brademas, a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, predicted that students would have difficulty securing loans under the projected system. "There is a tight money market now," he explained, "and banks will be unwilling to lend money to students when they can lend it elsewhere at higher interest...
...individual research. This innovation was pioneered by Florida Presbyterian and Colby, has spread to Colgate and about 20 other colleges. The variety of projects is limitless. A group of Colgate students went to Jamaica to study tropical-island biology. A Florida Presbyterian student went to work in a migrant-labor camp...
Varied Voluntaryism. For the moment at least, the Johnson Administration continues to rely most heavily in its fight against inflation on the guidelines that request both U.S. management and labor to restrict themselves-"voluntarily"-to price or wage increases of no more than 3.2% a year. The Administration has established two rather different varieties of voluntaryism. Whenever a major U.S. industry starts getting out of line on prices, Washington rams it back into place. When a union fractures the guidelines in its successful wage demands, the White House seems to be looking the other...
...Mooney, not money. Meaning Tom Mooney, labor's biggest martyr of the '20s and '30s, sentenced to death when convicted with Warren K. Billings of killing ten people in 1916's San Francisco Preparedness Parade, eventually released from prison...
Part of his strength came from a sense of tradition rooted in his dissenting German-American ancestors, who were Utopian colonists, freethinkers, socialist craftsmen and abolitionists. The rest of it came from an indestructible innocence that helped him to survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...