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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comprehensive reports with the U.S. Secretary of Labor on the working of its constitution and bylaws as well as on all financial transactions, including large payments and loans to officers and staffers. Similar reports are required from management on all payments to union officers and to labor-relation consultants. Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Reform Act of 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Trusteeships. Each "trusteeship" takeover of a recalcitrant local by top union bosses, long a favorite exploitation device, must be reported in detail to the Secretary of Labor. Maximum penalty: $10,000, or one year, or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Reform Act of 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Though some legislators pretended that the new law would mean the end of Michigan's troubles, most thought otherwise. Lawyers are bound to argue that the use tax is really nothing more than an increase in the sales tax, which the Michigan constitution places at a maximum of 3%. The "solution" could amount to no final fiscal solution for Michigan-but very probably it had solved once and for all the G.O.P.'s problem of Soapy Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Soapy's Solution | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

When college presidents parade their woes, it is time to mention Jean Paul Mather*of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The maximum salary he can offer a full professor is $8,684; the minimum offered the same man at the neighboring University of Connecticut is $8,100. This summer Massachusetts doubled tuition to $200, planned to use the money to attract sorely needed new teachers. But things do not work that way in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week the state senate voted down Mather's house-approved pay-raise plan. And after five years of thoughtless state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Massachusetts Morass | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Judd dourly for. Louisiana's Passman, 59, onetime refrigerator distributor and World War II Navy materiel and procurement officer, seven-term Congressman and Appropriations Committee axman, is an acknowledged expert who knows how to find every foreign-aid dollar in every foreign-aid pipeline and how to take maximum debating advantage thereof. Minnesota's Dr. Judd. 60, onetime medical missionary in China, is a nine-term Congressman and Foreign Affairs Committee veteran who just as expertly supports foreign aid out of his own personal experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Rivals | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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