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...Democrat Woodrow Wilson named Louis Brandeis, the court's first Jew, who despite a decidedly Wilsonian record of liberalism was a registered Republican. Harry Truman ignored the Catholic seat, which started with Chief Justice Roger Taney in 1836; no Catholic served on the court throughout Truman's seven-year term. With equal independence, Truman was the only Democrat after Wilson to name a Republican Justice (Burton...
...relic from the good old Habsburg days. We asked about the big farm on the hill. 'Belongs to Murer. He was in Poland and Russia during the war. He's very popular around the village.' " Wiesenthal managed to get Murer shipped back to Russia for a seven-year prison term...
Notoriously Lethargic. The strains show elsewhere. Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. claims to have reversed a seven-year trend of dwindling membership, it has been notoriously lethargic in recruiting the unskilled. Last month, in New York State's Catskill Mountains resort area, ten A.F.L.-C.I.O. locals, representing such craftsmen as carpenters and electricians, actually opposed higher minimum wages for busboys, maids and other nonunion hotel employees, complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes...
...employers have reason to complain about soaring labor costs, the fact is that wages have been rising much faster in other major nations, notably those of Western Europe. Between the 1958 start of the Common Market and 1965, U.S. workers' pretax wages went up 14%. During that seven-year period, pretax wages jumped 25% in Italy, 29% in France, 40% in Denmark, 41% in The Netherlands, and 53% in West Germany...
Penn finished the season with a 2-7 record, which earned them the bottom slot in the Ivy League. As it turned out, that loss was the only one Harvard sustained against Penn in a seven-year span...