Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlimited Debate? Defenders of Rule XXII will object on the ground that the Senate is a continuing body (because two-thirds of its membership holds over from Congress to Congress) with continuing rules. Vice President Nixon will advise, as he has before, that the would-be rules-changers are right. If Nixon is upheld by a simple Senate majority, the way will be open to adopting, again by simple majority, a new set of rules with Rule XXII the only one actually changed...
...marked absurdity to those who remembered his ability in the U.N. to match any other Arab in anti-Israeli invective). With dignity and courage, Jamali said he had favored Arab unity but not under Nasser, nor by Nasser's sleazy methods. Jamali had supported Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact because he saw only two possibilities for a modern state, either "strength or alliance with one of the big blocs. We are not strong, and therefore we must join an alliance. I chose the West...
...found a simple way to defeat the anti-closed-shop provisions of the state law: when a nonunion member shows up on a construction job, union members just get "sick" until he is fired. Union growth has hardly been hampered. Since the Virginia law was passed in 1947, union membership has grown from 100,000 to 150,000. There are other dodges to get around the restriction on the closed shop, such as the "agency" shop in which nonunion employees pay union dues...
While union leaders in Texas complain that the law has hurt them, they are hard put to find figures to prove it. Ed Burris, executive vice president of the Texas Manufacturers Association, cites union membership, which has grown from 110,500 before World War II to 400.000 today. He feels that the law has not inhibited the growth of unions or their functions as bargaining agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must...
...invitation to waltz into a new and more exciting life. She signed up for dancing lessons, paid higher and higher fees to win the privilege of attending parties and other extra functions at the school. After six weeks, she was persuaded to sign up for an $11,800 lifetime membership. One of the school instructors thoughtfully accompanied her home and to the bank to round up the payment. But with half her life's savings gone, Mrs. Lee became disillusioned, danced off to the police. Last week, in the third court case involving an Arthur Murray affiliate...