Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years, too long for any soldier in one job, so long that he was beginning to appear the indispensable man in the Air Force's top field command. He had been thought of by some top Pentagon names as too tough a bull for the Washington china shop. Now at last on the Washington scene, LeMay will succeed General Thomas D. White, who has been promoted to Chief of Staff (TIME, April 8). And under the important deputy concept of the Eisenhower Administration, he will be only one logical step away from Chief of Staff...
...fuel to the anti-unionist cause seems especially unfortunate at a time when a rash of right-to-work bills are being proposed in various state legislatures. The preservation of labor's right to maintain the union shop is important if labor unions are to be effective in their negotiations. Reuther's stand only evokes further antagonism against labor...
Perhaps the labor leaders' greatest fear was the possibility of a move for a federal "right-to-work law," or of new and strong support for the sort of right-to-work laws, banning the union shop, that are already on the books in 18 states and are pending in others (e.g., Delaware and Illinois). Their concern was not without cause. Clearly, there was a growing opinion in the U.S. that, regardless of the good intentions of most union leaders, some sort of machinery ought to be set up to check and balance the power of big labor...
...horse. When he needed a steam roller as a cartoon symbol, the city council obligingly had one driven under the windows of his studio. An admirer also presented him with a stuffed lion. Low gave it away later, having already decided that the "Olympian pet-shop" of national symbols was not good enough for a real cartoonist...
Meanwhile ... In Knoxville, Tenn., James Tipton Profitt, held pending his hearing on a charge of drunken driving, asked to work in the paint shop next to the jail, was found in a state of bliss two hours later next to an empty can of paint thinner...