Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powers uses the word muscle in the sense of union strength, not of physical violence. But it is that intransigence of attitude that has, despite the pleas of President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Wirtz, despite the mediation attempts of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Robert Wagner...
Seymour E. Harris, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, has defended President Kennedy's proposal for a $12-billion tax reduction as "the best possible compromise" between conservative fears of excessive federal deficits and liberal pleas for heavy welfare expenditures.
Strictly speaking, 6,000 unionized hourly workers at seven Lockheed Aircraft plants were voting last week on a proposed three-year contract granting 28.3? in hourly wage increases, along with triple holiday pay and better vacations. But the real issue at stake was the fate of a union shop at...
"On this vote," intoned Speaker John McCormack, "there are 235 in the affirmative." Before McCormack could announce the negative vote of 196, House Democrats exploded in applause. For the House, heeding the urgent pleas of President Kennedy, had just decided to keep the membership of its key Rules Committee at...
By last week more than 50 of Mali's 250 most important foreign enterprises, mostly French, had pulled out. The trade deficit stood at $26 million and reserves had shrunk to a minuscule $5,000,000. In Paris the French listened with almost saintly patience to Mali's...