Word: session
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisp with excitement and expectancy in the crowded Washington hearing room this week when the fact-finding panel appointed by President Eisenhower started its last-chance hearings in an effort to help get the steel strike settled. When the session ended 4½ hours later, Chairman George William Taylor was still showing the unflagging amiability and hopefulness of the professional mediator, but the excitement and expectancy in the audience had soured into disgust at both sides. The fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling...
First down the ramp was Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, who agreed that the compromise 1959 Labor-Management Act (TIME, Sept. 14) "contains many unfair and unsound and one-sided provisions," promised more favorable legislation, including a boost of minimum wages from $1 to $1.25 per hour in the next session. As for his own record, he had no regrets: "Jimmy Hoffa may not approve of me, but I do not apologize for having earned his hostility." The delegates gave Kennedy a rousing, standing ovation...
...which Algeria is locked, and to re-enter the reign of law." But there were thunderous hoots of disbelief from right-wing diehards, who were determined to stymie De Gaulle's plan for Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). Most of the deputies from Algeria boycotted the session, and the Gaullist U.N.R. Party was shaken by the angry resignation of nine right-wingers, who considered any concessions-even talks with the rebels-as the first step toward France's total loss of Algeria. "I refuse all solutions of compromise," cried tough Colonel Robert ("Leather Nose") Thomazo...
Until last summer. Pianist de Groot was a two-handed recitalist of solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
...former Presidential candidate lunched with Riesman, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, Seymour Harris '20, Lucuis N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, and his son Borden. "It was a political bull-session," Borden commented after the luncheon party broke up. Both Galbraith and Schlesinger are members of the Policy Committee of The Americans for Democratic Action...