Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This decision will force an employer, in effect, to finance a strike against himself through providing company-wide strike benefits." So said Ford Motor Co.'s Vice President John Bugas, commenting on a Michigan State Supreme Court decision which the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review last week. What the Michigan court decision did was to repeal a longstanding rule that functionally integrated plants are all part of the same establishment. Hereafter, employers may be taxed to pay unemployment compensation even when the union strikes a plant on which the whole company operation depends for an essential part...
...contract, the U.A.W. claimed a safety violation at Canton, then the supplier of all the rear axle shafts used in Ford cars and trucks. The U.A.W. held the unionists out five weeks, forcing Ford to shut down across the nation, grant the union a big pension fund increase. The Michigan Employment Security Commission ruled that the Michigan workers were involved in the Canton strike and so were ineligible for unemployment pay. A circuit court upheld the commission. But last January the state's highest court reversed the ruling, ordered the commission to pay Ford employees about...
Early Days. Born Oct. 23, 1895, son of a Swedish immigrant who stubbornly scratched an existence out of 80 South Dakota acres near Parker (pop. 1,148), Clinton Presba Anderson had made his way through his third year in college (Dakota Wesleyan, University of Michigan) by 1917. Then, after an Army doctor rejected him for officers' training camp upon finding a tubercular infection (Anderson has since suffered from diabetes, shingles in 1949, and a coronary in 1950), he went to New Mexico, spent nine months in a sanatorium, stayed on in the Southwest...
With poignant force, the problem hit St. Louis' energetic, earnest Dr. Samuel Shepard Jr. two years ago. A Negro, he had risen from abject poverty in Kansas City. Mo., put himself through the University of Michigan by scullery work. He climbed steadily in the St. Louis public-school system, first as teacher and athletic coach, later as principal. To his white colleagues, it was no surprise. "Sam Shepard is willing to work three times harder than anyone else," one of them says. "He stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done...
...have been so bedeviled by political critics in the U.S. Congress as Democrat Dean Acheson during his four years as Secretary of State; Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, for one, felt genuine pity one night when Acheson dropped by his apartment and, over a mournful drink, told of his troubles with Congress. Yet as a private citizen-practicing law in Washington and sitting as a member of the Democratic Advisory Council-no one has worked harder than Dean Acheson at urging the Democratic Congress to give the Republican Administration political fits. Last week, invited to Capitol Hill...