Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Gralla was called to Washington for high-level briefings on his part in the project. President Eisenhower was planning to announce in late August the U.S.'s willingness to suspend nuclear tests for one year and try to work out a test-detection agreement with the Soviet Union. Before entering into test-ban negotiations, the U.S. needed to try for answers to some vital questions: What would happen when a nuclear explosion took place in a near-vacuum 300 miles above the earth's surface? What were the prospects of coping with oncoming enemy ballistic missiles...
Secrecy was absolutely essential. The U.S. did not want the Soviet Union to find out about Project Argus and monitor it. And President Eisenhower did not want the world to know, when he announced the one-year test suspension (beginning Oct. 31), that the U.S. was about to carry out secret nuclear tests in the South Atlantic...
Committee Democrats squirmed at Slichter's blunt insistence that the main cause of present-day creeping inflation is labor-union pressure for wage increases. Republicans winced at his equally blunt plea for a $3 billion deficit in the fiscal year ahead to stimulate the economy and shrink unemployment. Trying to be helpful, Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss said he was sure that Slichter did not really favor a deficit "as such." Retorted Slichter, touching off a burst of laughter: "I think...
...term the Dean of Students recognized 13 political clubs and of these, three dominate the scene: the Young Democrats with 224 members, the Young Republicants with 160, and the UN Council with 150. Further down the scale, the Liberal Union has its 50, and the other clubs form a cluster with from 15 to 30 members each...
According to one enthusiastic member, the Liberal Union is the "oldest, cleanest, most active political organization on campus, without an election scandal yet." Its purpose is to "study an issue, take a stand, and then do something about it," and the HLU has strong ties to the Campus Americans for Democratic Action, which advocates such policies as extension of TVA principles to other river valleys, national health insurance, and establishment of a "comprehensive" federal scholarship program...