Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Dwight Eisenhower in his first State of the Union message in 1953: "American labor and American business can best resolve their wage problems across the bargaining table. Government should refrain from sitting in with them." Since then, the Republican Administration has faithfully followed a hands-off policy in labor-management relations. How well has the policy worked? From the bargaining tables, picket lines and Government statistics last week came the answer...
Above the humdrum buzz of the U.S. Senate caucus room, where a special committee met last week to consider censure action against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, rose a throaty monotone in a familiar refrain: "Just a minute, Mr. Chairman, just one minute...
Easy Payments, by Ray Doyle (Hermitage; $3), is a soap operetta, and its refrain is that a loan collector's lot is not an easy one. With a baby on the way and a stack of unpaid bills, sobersided Dan Cantrell cannot be choosy about his work. His job as "investigator" for the Trustee Personal Finance Co. is to hound the "slows." He soon finds that the slows' lot is not a happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded...
...conference at Chicago, the Association of [State] Chief Justices took Judge Barnes's decision as one more example of the growing tendency of federal courts to intervene in nonfederal cases. The chief justices passed a resolution demanding that lower federal courts refrain from issuing writs of habeas corpus for persons held under the jurisdiction of state courts...
...Both sides agree to refrain from reprisals against collaborators...