Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Is "Fair"? Nathan's sweeping "projections" did not consider industry's condition in detail. There are 420,000 U.S. corporations, and not even Nathan would claim that all of them showed a profit. But his report was enough to make them all targets of labor's new drive. C.I.O. leaders denied this, but the report was hardly out when the U.A.W.'s peppery redhead, Walter Reuther, announced a drive for a 23½?-an-hour wage rise in the automotive industry...
...Record. The Nathan report failed to distinguish between what might be and what would be. He said wages could be raised without raising prices. The record was against him. Prices broke through Government controls last year. Now controls have been removed. Management, interpreting facts in its own way and using its own judgment, will certainly raise prices if it has to raise wages. Even as the C.I.O. got ready to swing the Nathan club, General Motors' President C. E. Wilson stated flatly that price rises would follow wage rises as night follows day. Whether the policy was stupid...
...York City's Board of Estimate immediately agreed to do its part. A sub-committee of the U.N. made a whirlwind inspection of the site, turned in a glowing report. At week's end the General Assembly voted (46 to 7) to accept the Rockefeller gift. U.N. had found a home...
Relief, Refugees, Money. Faced by the imminent end of UNRRA, the Assembly set up a Special Technical Committee to "study . . . survey . . . report concerning the amount of financial assistance which it believes may be required." The U.S. has insisted on its right to send relief when & where it chooses...
...eyes with a handkerchief), and they forgot the World Court. Mrs. Pandit had previously claimed that "Jesus Christ Himself . . . would be a prohibited immigrant [to South Africa]." The two countries were instructed (32-to-15, with seven abstentions) to compose their differences in the spirit of the Charter, report to the Assembly next September. This in effect...