Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself was off in Europe scoring a major breakthrough on foreign policy. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's heady first term had a U.S. President brought his will to bear on Congress with such effective force, and never before had a President so effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that passed both houses last week (see below) would have been a far weaker measure, all partisans admitted, but for the President's well-timed radio-and-television intervention. But his greatest battle was for fiscal stability, and his stand against free-handed spending last week withstood...
...tired Senators. Democrat John Kennedy of Massachusetts and conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona showed the strain of 2½ grueling weeks of battle, generally with each other, inside the 14-man Senate-House conference committee assigned to work out differences between Senate and House versions of the Labor Reform Act of 1959. A reporter asked Kennedy how labor unions would feel about the final bill just agreed on, and Goldwater playfully answered for him by shoving an imaginary labor knife into Kennedy's back. Kennedy laughed, turned serious. "Compromises are never happy experiences," he said. "I think...
...Mannix prescription: have the A.H.A.-in cooperation with the American Medical and Dental Associations if they agree-get a federal charter for an American Blue Cross as a voluntary, nationwide organization. Its trustees should include representatives of agriculture, labor and management, preferably appointed by the President of the U.S. Its major aims, Mannix suggested, should...
...Labor Day approached, the U.S. was in a spending mood. The freest with their funds were those who pinched pennies most tightly only a few months ago: U.S. industries. Last week Washington economists reported a fresh surge in expenditures for new plant and equipment. Capital investment has climbed from an annual rate of $30.6 billion in the first quarter to $32.3 billion in the second to a brisk $33.4 billion, may well hit $35 billion in the fourth quarter-if a prolonged steel strike does not sabotage the economists' projections...
That truth is largely concerned with the growth to maturity of all the different people called "I," who live in a small, unnamed Southern town-and occasionally travel out from it. Their various roads to maturity are those of the whole world: love and labor, passion and violence are part of the process; so are dreams of the past, dreams of the future and dreams induced by marijuana and stronger "mainline" stuff. Many of the stories deal with the eternal masculine tension between sex and love. Writes Anderson in "Signifying," a tale of a pretty young Philadelphia schoolteacher...