Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still does provide a measure of space, if two thermonuclear powers would stand off against each other. In general, we're seeing the great importance of sea power." Another way of putting it was that the Navy's show provided a maximum amount of power with a minimum amount of friction. At all times, Anderson delegated heavy responsibility to his subordinates-most of all to an old friend he called Denny. This was Admiral Robert Lee Dennison, 61, who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic...
...famous recent productions of Die Meistersinger-the one mounted by Wieland Wagner in Bayreuth in 1956-the tendency was to reduce realistic sets to a minimum. Last week's resplendent production,* with sets and costumes by Designer Robert O'Hearn, took a different tack-and was far more successful. The soaring stone columns and arches of St. Catherine's Church in Act I looked enduringly solid-a far cry from the standard productions in which they tend to flap and billow like a clothesline of wet wash. The steeply gabled gingerbread houses of Nürnberg...
While local politicians beamed on the platform, Kennedy gave the Republicans hell. "I am proud to come back to this city and state and ask your support in electing Democrats-those members of the House and Senate who support the minimum wage and medical care for the aged, and urban renewal, and cleaning our rivers, and giving security to our older people, and educating our children, and giving jobs to our workers. That is the issue of this campaign...
...welfare of the people of this country, and seen us win issue after issue by three or four votes, or seen us lose issue after issue by one or two votes in the House or the Senate. Eighty percent of the Republicans in the House voted against a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. I can tell you what we stand for, but I challenge anyone to tell us what the Republican Party stands...
...professor defended his support for a $1.50 minimum wage against Lodge's contention that it would throw thousands of men out of work. Only by a national minimum wage can we prevent industry from Seeing South to take advantage of cheap labor, Hughes said...