Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page list of charges, summoned Beck to a hearing before his brother vice presidents on the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council. Unanimously the 25 council members who heard the charges decided that "there is not the faintest question in our minds that Beck is completely guilty of violating the basic trade-union law that union funds are a sacred trust." Even this was not strong enough for George Meany. He needed an additional 20 minutes to tell the pudgy pride of Puget Sound "what I thought of his actions...
Argentina heavily, and the price was clearly written in arrested economy, political breakdown, unfavorable international trade and demoralization of the people...
Rival's Welcome. Cut off from its "natural" markets on the Chinese mainland, Japan carries an unfavorable trade balance of more than half a billion dollars, made up in part by current U.S. "special procurements" in Japan but ultimately solvable only by finding new markets for Japan's growing and efficient industries. As Kishi put it: "Without prosperity in Asia, there is no prosperity for Japan." Kishi talked grandly of Japan's "capacity to extend assistance" to Southeast Asia, but Japan has in fact little capital to export...
Local 254 regards its paid, full-time employees as a decisive factor in its favor, however. "The president of the HUERA is a janitor," notes Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Trade Union Program of the Graduate School of Business Administration. "That's the main difference. We are professionals, working all day, everyday for our members." He adds that officers who are not financially dependent upon the University could bargain more freely...
...other. His Philistine realizes that a magic has gone out of his life, that "things were different now. The winged seeds that gyrate down from the trees now mean nothing else but that we must sweep them from the automobile hood because stains on the finish lower the trade-in value." And his bohemian is intelligent enough to recognize and be shamed by his own posing. At the peak of his talkativeness and charm, he "commences to doubt the impression he is making...