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...breach of a collective agreement. As its defense, the union claimed that the stoppage was spontaneous and that it had ordered the men back. But, the board found, "it is not enough for the union to go through the motions of giving back-to-work orders . . . There must be prompt attempts to get the employees back to work ... It may be necessary . . . even to take disciplinary measures against particular members of the union." Said Bora Laskin, law professor at the University of Toronto who acted as chairman of the arbitration board: "[The ruling] reaffirms the very fundamental principle that...
When the two-year-old John Hay Whitney Foundation first began asking educators where & how it should spend its money, it got a prompt and unanimous answer: "Support the humanities." Last week the foundation announced that it was doing just that, through its new Whitney Visiting Professors in the Humanities Program...
...Truth. One prompt result of Churchill's words was a spate of speculation that Britain's bank balance was lower than even the bankers suspected. Pundits in the financial district wondered whether dollar reserves might fall so low that the pound would be devalued again. Cripps devalued the pound in 1949 when Britain's dollar reserves fell to $1.3 billion; they rose to $3.8 billion at the end of June 1951. By the end of last March they were down to $1.7 billion again. After Churchill's speech, the Financial Times sternly demanded "the whole truth...
...Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...
...newcomer was trying to melt into the college landscape, the CRIMSON'S weekly fashion column was solving his sartorial problems. "If you are interested in any question of dress or etiquette," the column stated, "write the 'Well Dressed Man' care of the Harvard CRIMSON and your letter will receive prompt and careful attention...