Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members' Rights. Labor-boss coercion is outlawed, members get the unqualified right to vote in union elections (by secret ballot), may speak up against policies, get fair and public hearing in disciplinary procedures, sue in U.S. courts if justice is not provided under union procedure...
...disgruntled U.S. embassy finally sent a note to the Guatemalan government: "Did the Minister of Agriculture speak for his government?" No, replied the government, but it did nothing about Marroquin Rojas' attacks. Last week the U.S. did. The ICA pulled out of the jointly supported U.S.-Guatemalan Agriculture Service, ended its contract with the Agriculture Department (but did sign a new, smaller cooperation contract with the agrarian institute, a government corporation not under Marroquin Rojas). Under the renegotiated arrangement, the 22 U.S. experts will be trimmed to eight, and the U.S. contribution to Guatemala's farm improvement will...
...picture is worth ten thousand words. But it depends on who is looking through the range finder. Photographer Carl Mydans has been making picture history for LIFE for nearly a quarter-century, and in many a picture has made words seem superfluous. Yet sooner or later a man must speak or write. Mydans, living and working in a time of violence, has seen more of history than most men, and recorded so much of it that immunity to ordinary feeling might seem a natural result. But his time, too, has come to write, and he has put pen to paper...
...front of east coast mosques, he greeted crowds by crying Merdeka (freedom) and arguing commonsensically that "there is too much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about our similarities," appealed to citizens of Malay, Chinese and Indian stock "to sink our differences and speak about what is good for the country as a whole." His political rivals had narrower aims. The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party dreams of bringing Malaya into a "Greater Indonesia." Two small leftist parties formed a Socialist front and advocated the expropriation of all foreign holdings in the nation...
...order. One paper, read by Professor Chrysostom Konstanti-nidis of Turkey's Halki Theological School, was based on the assumption that Eastern church traditions are closer to original Christianity than Western traditions. Yet few Protestants took offense. Said Lutheran Professor Hendrikus Berghof of The Netherlands: "Our Orthodox friends speak very frankly. They say, 'You are not the church, and we are the church,' and we applaud. We need a real conversation...