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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of exploiting unionism to build personal empires, two of the leading robber barons of the labor movement last week began to feel the restraints of the three-month-old Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill...
...empire by refusing truck service to companies picketed by labor racketeers seeking shakedown money out of phony organizational or recognition strikes. Landrum-Griffin's provisions outlaw the shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot cargo" from any company with labor troubles. Last week, at a Chicago meeting of his huge Central States Conference, Hoffa declared that he would not only observe the new law's restrictions, but also bitterly laid out a go-it-alone policy as far as all non-Teamster unions are concerned: "Our members will refuse to honor lines...
...area of the world bigger than the U.S. and Western Europe combined, the U.S., the Soviet Union and ten other nations agreed last week to disarmament and a wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...
...American Legion's fun-loving 40 & 8 Society have been wrangling for ten years over the Legion's insistence that they drop their ban against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted the 40 & 8, forbade...
Smaller Germany. Last week, as these possibilities unfolded, the Germans were increasingly disturbed by the future glimpses they saw. Into Paris, in a Luftwaffe transport, flew Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to see his old friend De Gaulle. Convinced that it is his historic mission to end the disastrous century-old rivalry between France and Germany, Adenauer has committed Germany's future to partnership with France, and he was alarmed by the direction De Gaulle was taking...