Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading authority on labor law, Cox left the Faculty of Law in 1961 to represent the federal government in cases before the Supreme Court. He was elected to the Board of Overseers in 1962, but resigned before returning to the Law School this fall...
...conspicuously deprived of political representation and economic opportunity. While thus proving itself the most liberal Congress in decades, the 89th has notably refused to act in one area that might have been expected to fit its pattern: it has not approved a single bill that would exclusively benefit organized labor...
Olympian Ultimatum. It was not for lack of effort on labor's part. Swarms of hard-bitten labor lobbyists bustled around Capitol Hill all session. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself stumped from office to office, making gruff demands for repeal. International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown even distributed copies of an Olympian ultimatum admonishing Congress: "Our patience is about exhausted with being doublecrossed. And the Senators ought to know that they cannot doublecross the labor movement again and get away with...
Looking to Liberman. Along with forcibly stopping the leakage of labor, East Germany has taken another important step toward stability: it has embraced capitalist-like reforms for its economy more thorough than those of any other Soviet satrapy. Instead of Marx's hoary notion of giving "to each according to his needs," it is tending toward Soviet Economist Evsei Liberman's philosophy of reward according to efficiency. Since 1963, East Germany has also adopted what used to be heresy: industrial decentralization and looser planning. The regime granted more powers to local managers to boost or slash production, prices...
...syndication rights for reporters-had few other consolations for the Guild, still fewer for the Times. "We don't like the settlement," said Times Vice President Ivan Veit, "but we'll learn to live with it." Kheel had made it clear that the paper's labor-relations department was in sad disarray; it would have to be revamped before it could deal intelligently with the difficulties ahead. Beyond all that, there was the more immediate problem of making up lost advertising revenue and winning back lost readers. And despite their strike benefits, the Guildsmen would...