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...settlement was a prime example of the way FMCS's troubleshooters head off strikes. In the past 16 months, under Director Whitley P. McCoy, 60, a former University of Alabama law professor, FMCS has handled some 21,000 disputes. Partisanship has no place in the service. McCoy, a staunch Democrat, was named to the job by President Eisenhower, and he insists that his 230 mediators be as impartial as big-league umpires. His philosophy is that the best labor-management agreements are those worked out by the parties themselves; the mediator is most useful when both sides have reached...
...committee of Congress, goes from the frying pan to the fire -from North Dakota's drafty William Langer to West Virginia's drafty Harley Kilgore. Few revisions in labor-management law are likely to come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing tax reduction past Virginia's Senator Byrd until Government spending is sharply cut-a prospect that is even dimmer than it was before the election...
...most cases, the visitor's experience would have caused little stir. But the Negro was Grantley Adams, Premier of the British colony of Barbados and a staunch promoter of Canada-West Indies trade. When an airline official discovered next day that the Premier had been shunted to a second-rate hotel, he promptly reported the incident to the Ottawa government. Windsor Hotel officials hotly denied that any discrimination had been involved; the management insisted that there had really been "a lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last...
...more candidates take a position like that of Illinois' Republican Candidate Edward Jenison, a formerly staunch Taftman, who is basing his campaign on the Eisenhower popularity, has plastered Springfield with signs reading: "Help Ed, Help Ike, Help You." And California's Mrs. Harriet Enderle is only one of the many Democrats who is running on a Help Ike platform. Says she, in her campaign against G.O.P. Representative James Utt: "I have sought to persuade the voters of this district that I would be of more help to the Republican President than Mr. Utt. If that's riding...
There was much conversation about current events, including politics, in the Case household. The Rev. Case was a staunch Republican-so staunch that he canceled his subscription to the New York Times when it endorsed Woodrow Wilson for President...