Word: marte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this case no one could ask for a more impartial board: Justice Roger I. Mc-Donough of the Utah Supreme Court, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Mart J. O'Mally, and Gordon S. Watkins, provost of California's Riverside College. Their compromise solution: cut yard hours to 40, raise wages 18?; but no change for men working on the roads. Management accepted-but the unions disdainfully refused, and eagerly suggested that the Government take over the yards...
Rocking Along. Mart, Tex., a cotton and corn town near Waco, has lost 583 of its 2,856 citizens since 1940. "We've all grown older and content to be that way," said one town father. "We have as many heads of families as we ever had, but the families now consist of one or two old people." Eight out of ten of Mart's high-school boys go on to college each year; Mart has few jobs for college graduates. For recreation, the youngsters drive 18 miles into Waco. Said J. H. Rogers, local car dealer...
...only issue his opponents could dredge up was the old charge that Osorio, whose face resembles the broad, brown Indian features of ex-Dictator Maximiliano Martínez, is in fact Martínez' illegitimate son. In a country where little stigma is attached to bastardy, this campaign flopped dismally. Osorio denied the charge, explained good-humoredly: "All us Indians look alike...