Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days will serve the public purpose only if they become the cooling-off period envisioned in the law. Under terms of the law, federal mediators must lead the negotiators back to the table, but they cannot make them bargain. After 60 days the President's Board of Inquiry must report on progress and specify management's last offer. Within 15 days-at least five days before the injunction expires-the National Labor Relations Board must take a secret ballot among workers to see whether they will accept the offer...
...negotiator, told the Virginia Manufacturers Association that the union enjoys "vastly" greater power than the companies; that Steelworker President David McDonald is the "only man who can choke off our nation's steel supply at will." When the Supreme Court order was announced, McDonald agreed to obey "the law of the land," but struck a do-or-die pose. Cried he: "Steelworkers do not quit. They will not bow down to industrial tyranny...
...will take to Asia the State Department's retiring Troubleshooter Bob Murphy, who will delay his retirement (and starting his new jobs as a director of Corning Glass Works and president of Corning Glass Works International) to make the trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John, and act as hostess on behalf of Mamie Eisenhower. The First Lady, said Ike at his press conference, will stay home-"It is a little bit tough, I think, for her on that kind of a mission...
Another noise drowned in the landslide's rumble: two-time Democratic Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, 61, sometime U.S. Senator and unlamented baseball high commissioner (1945-51). Barred by law from succeeding himself as Governor, "Happy" Chandler tried in the May primary to win the nomination for a hand-picked successor. He failed against a Combs campaign expertly engineered by ex-Senator (1950-56) Earle C. Clements, 63, bitter factional foe of Chandler for a quarter-century (TIME, May 25). Only a Republican victory in the election could have restored Democrat Chandler's slipping grip on state political power...
...Pearl River County grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...