Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, in the sweltering, smoky railway center of Kharagpur, near Calcutta, a locomotive chugged to a stop outside the station to discharge workers. Suddenly, a mob of 200 railroad strikers was upon it. Beating the driver and fireman to a pulp with stones, they tossed their bodies aside. Then they opened the throttle and sent the locomotive careering down the tracks into the station. It smashed into a crowd of 100 workers, throwing bodies in every direction and injuring 60 people...
...being deprived of their rights by the Supreme Court of the United States." Lawrence, along with states' righters already hot under the collar about court rulings that have struck down segregation and state antisedition laws (TIME, April 16), was angered by the court's latest decision: that railroad unions can en force union-shop agreements even in states where the union shop is forbidden by "right-to-work" laws...
...case at hand involved five Nebraska employees of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1953 the five employees, all office workers, had flatly refused union membership, contending that such action would be a violation-of the right-to-work provision in a 1946 amendment to the state constitution. The Nebraska Supreme Court backed them up. The Railway Clerks and other unions affected carried the appeal to Washington, and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Nebraska decision on the grounds that a Railway Labor Act amendment specifically permits companies and unions to negotiate union-shop agreements even if there...
...dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer proclaiming: "Welcome Princeton, Orange and Black Brothers...
...vigorous exercise of bad judgment kept John Charles Fremont from becoming one of the authentic giants of U.S. history. His behavior in California during the Mexican War led to court-martial for mutiny, disobedience and conduct prejudicial to order, and his resignation from the Army. His search for a railroad route through the Southwest ended in disaster because he would not listen to men who knew better than he did the dangers of midwinter in the mountains. He was the first man nom inated for the presidency by a Republican convention, but he did not bother to campaign actively...