Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adding insult to injury was the fact that the man who invoked this so-called "21-day" rule was Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Labor and Education Committee and by any standard the House's purest demagogue. Floor Manager Powell attempted to limit debate to two hours; but amid Republican demands for more time, he and Speaker John McCormack decided to permit five hours, despite Powell's lament that the delay would force him to break a $1,500 speaking engagement in Austin, Texas...
...bill. Tough, computer-quick, he also loomed as the intellectual innovator behind the scenes, having been assigned by Sir Alec to preside over a rethinking of basic Tory policy. Maudling, by contrast, had been nearly invisible as shadow foreign secretary in the Commons, unable to attack Wilson effectively, since Labor's foreign policy is one with which the Tories largely agree...
...Parliament in Bexley. He ousted the incumbent Laborite by 133 votes. He mastered the intricacies of the House so well that by 1955 he was Chief Whip and played a critical role in holding the Tories together through the tumultuous days of the Suez crisis. A Cabinet post (Labor) and the Common Market portfolio followed soon after...
...more than a century, the prosperous Walloons dominated things from their industrial southern strongholds; the northern Flemings were the poor relations. After World War II the balance shifted. The population advantage moved to the Flemings-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-and industry flocked to the cheap labor supply of Flanders. Flemish nationalism flourished, and Flemings bitterly protested that, although Dutch and French had official parity, French was still the language for Flemings who wanted to rise to the top. Few Walloons, they complained, bothered to learn Dutch...
...JOBS: The doubling of draft calls, to 35,000 a month, will trim unemployment in the under-20 age group where the rate is a high 16% (v. 4.4% for the labor force as a whole...