Word: redressing
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...time since Nov. 21, there was no major strike in the U.S. But beyond the threat of the seaman's strike (see Labor) President Truman had a labor problem just the same. Before him, for his disposition, was the Case bill, which sought, in a small way, to redress the balance between labor & management...
Clement Attlee had not attained his objective-the British-American Big Two which Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin suggested last fortnight. But Britain's Socialist Prime Minister might yet fulfill the aim of his 19th-Century predecessor, Canning, who "called in the New World to redress the balance...
Last week Ryland Compton won redress-with the first discharge reclassification under the G.I. Bill of Rights. After hearing his story, the Navy's Board of Review of Discharges and Dismissals upped his classification one degree, listed him as discharged "under honorable conditions...
...Pacific's president, big Bill Jeffers, took time out to roar that Berge was suffering from "Potomac fever." Joseph Hays, counsel for the W.A.R.E., said: "Mr. Biddle knows that if his charges were anything more than sheer demagoguery he could take the complaint to the ICC for speedy redress." Hays argued that Attorney General Biddle should have included ICC among the culprits, since all freight rates must be cleared through ICC. Others felt that the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, should have been among those sued. Harriman was Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific...
Cooperative Endeavor. "In candor," writes Lasch, "redress cannot be expected from a revival of competition. The clock does not turn back. Having survived one era of jungle warfare, and facing now a new kind of rivalry in radio, the newspapers will not tolerate a further division of the spoils. And save for a few venturesome souls, the prospective rewards are unlikely to attract new enterprisers...