Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virginia (54): No delegates will be chosen until July 27, and Governor Mills E. Godwin is expected to keep them uncommitted until he can strike a favorable bargain...
Other provisions of the bill were closer to what the President requested in 1967, when he called on Congress to strike a blow against crime in America. Among these: $400 million for assistance to state and local police in the next two fiscal years-almost 10% of the total amount now spent on all aspects of law enforcement...
...This strike could last five years," growled Broadway Impresario David Merrick. 55, "and there'll be nothing left of the theater when it's over." By the second night of a strike by the Actors' Equity, Broadway was dark, and all 19 of its shows were closed. At that point, Mayor John Lindsay, an avid theater buff himself, made an entrance in answer to a union appeal, and hosted all-night negotiations at his Gracie Mansion residence. Finally, the surprise ending: settlement of the strike (terms: weekly wage increases of $15-$25, protection of U.S. actors against...
Most papers tried to strike a balance, avoiding the we-are-all-guilty approach, but at the same time recognizing that American society as a whole could not be held totally free of responsibility for what had happened. Newsday Columnist Flora Lewis suggested that the violence in American life cannot be separated so easily from American idealism, from the American dream. She quoted the wife of a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "America is a place where people really can do something if they pick themselves up and try. It's the beauty and the danger all at once...
...cabinet has been about as troubled as the one in Washington. For more than two years, the regulatory Federal Communications Commission has been digging into Bell rates and procedures in the first thoroughgoing investigation of A.T. & T. since the 1930s. Only last month the company ended a nationwide strike-its first since 1947-by agreeing to an inflationary 6½% average wage and benefit increase. Three weeks ago, in a speech just before his retirement from the Justice Department, Trustbuster Donald F. Turner evoked an old ghost by saying that new action aimed at divesting A.T. & T. of its manufacturing...