Word: prolabor
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...well-fed voters of little Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million) last week threw out the prolabor, welfare-statist Colorado Party that has ruled the country without interruption for 93 long years. Into power, by a vote of 414,000 to 325,000, went the rightist Nationals...
...disputes, López Mateos expanded the corps of government arbitrators from one to 50, set up teams of investigators to look into management's books and labor's demands. By the time a dispute reached the mediation stage, he and his arbitrators were ready, willing and prolabor. Once, after a long wrangle with a group of representatives of management, López Mateos tapped his finger on the table for attention. "Gentlemen," he said. "Perhaps you did not notice the sign over the door. It says Secretary of Labor. I am here to represent labor...
...government-by-decree, dismayed by his government's apparent lack of political and technical know-how. The President himself complains that most of his economic advisers are "no-idea men." And until he can launch a program to encourage business and raise living standards, the threat of a "prolabor" Communist comeback will not disappear...
Although the papers follow a straight-and-narrow path when there is clear church doctrine (e.g., birth control), Father Smith sets the policies when there is not. The Register is strongly prolabor, pro-United Nations, and pro-Franco Spain. "I do not endorse Franco because I like him," explains Editor Smith, "but because he is the lesser of two evils." The paper never endorses candidates in elections. Of Joe McCarthy, Editor Smith says: "I wouldn't compromise the bishops by taking a stand, although personally I think the man has done many good things, even though he has committed...
...flair for the dramatic political phrase which delighted her audiences, and got her elected. When she arrived in Washington as a freshman Congresswoman, she was appointed to the important House Military Affairs Committee. During the term she kept up a sharp, running attack on the New Deal, voted a prolabor, pro-civil-rights record, and went home in 1944 to win reelection...