Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 24 hours of continuous negotiations, a rumpled three-man Government board last week announced tentative settlement of the 57-day strike called by nonoperating workers against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and its subsidiaries. The walkout had affected 29,000 workers and curtailed traffic in 14 states...
...past, railroad strikes have often brought White House intervention. Examples: in 1943 President Roosevelt personally worked out an agreement giving railroad workers an extra 5? an hour; in 1946 President Truman coerced a settlement by threatening, in a nationwide broadcast, to order the Army to break a railroad strike (he also proposed to Congress that strikers be drafted into the Army). One result of such presidential action was to make the National Mediation Board, set up under the Railway Labor Act, little more than a front organization, with both rail labor and management looking hungrily toward the White House...
...Texas) Daily Echo, for a series on one-man political rule in the state's Duval County (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954); for editorial writing, the Detroit's Free Press's Royce Howes, for an editorial on the responsibility of labor and management in an unauthorized U.A.W. strike against Chrysler; for cartooning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cartoonist Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, for a cartoon urging the U.S. to stay clear of involvement in Indo-China; for photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields...
Right Behind You. In Buffalo, when strapping Charles Schutt, 16, arraigned on a petty-larceny charge, threatened to strike back if his father tried to discipline him. Judge James B. McKenna advised the father: "If he fights back, knock his teeth out. The law will protect...
Died. Frank F. Merriam, 89, onetime (1934-39) Republican governor of California; of a heart attack; at Long Beach, Calif. Succeeding James Rolph Jr. in 1934, Merriam used the National Guard to squelch a San Francisco longshoremen's strike, that fall trounced Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair in a bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign...