Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snob. In Sherman Oaks, Calif., when Robert Eschback was arrested on suspicion of pulling a stickup at a supermarket, he said he was never mixed up in that sort of thing: "I'm strictly a burglar...
Drawing the Line. What the Justice Department hopes to prove in the I.L.G.W.U. case, and in a number of other indictments expected soon from grand juries sitting in Omaha, Chicago and other cities, is that labor unions are entitled to exemption from the Sherman Act under the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act only so long as they confine themselves to negotiating higher wages, or other legitimate labor objectives. When they step over the line and begin to use labor union power to fix prices and allocate markets, then the Justice Department intends to wheel up the big guns...
...early as 1954, the Antitrust Division began quietly bringing a series of apparently unrelated but actually closely dovetailed labor cases. They were intended to lay the groundwork for its campaign against labor unions which it feels have trampled on the Sherman Act, e.g., the Minnesota Milk Drivers Union enjoined from forcing stores to jack up the prices of milk so the drivers could collect larger commissions...
...against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers in the garment industry, charged that the prosecution of only one of his 500-odd locals was "a frontal attack by the Republican Administration against basic safeguards won on the picket line and across...
...faculty members. Examinations have never been strictly proctored at the Annex, even in the days when 'Cliffies took all exams in Longfellow Hall under Harvard regulations. Nevertheless, students in the early forties campaigned for the right to apply the honor system to final exams. When Dean Mildred P. Sherman proposed the idea to University Provost Paul Buck, he told her it would never work at Harvard, but to "go ahead and try it" at Radcliffe. The Annex went ahead, but it was soon apparent that the total freedom advocated by Student Government was a step in the wrong direction...