Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trooped into his White House office at 8 a.m. last week. Among them were Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting the strike by injunction for 80 days to provide a cooling-off period. He named a three-man committee...
...better than fair success over the past twelve years. The law's aim is to ensure production for an 80-day "cooling-off period" in strikes or threatened strikes found to imperil the "national health or safety," thereby giving management and labor a chance to resume negotiations toward a new contract. How it works...
John Yovicsin began the long walk across the field to congratulate his opposite number, coach Lefty James of Cornell. He, too, did not look up as he made his way through the crowd. After the handshaking and fragmentary conversation he moved toward his next obligation, the weekly press conference...
...Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
...other studies have been made, however, which promise to have far greater effects: one because it is almost a definitive case against the four-quarter program; the other because it led to concrete action which represents a step toward full-time use of a college...