Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much pro-Western as pro his country's independence, banned the biggest Red weapon-mass demonstrations- and followed it with an order prohibiting strikes. When SOBSI recklessly decided on a test of strength and called a plantation strike in Sumatra, the army swiftly broke it, arrested eight union officers. In central Java last month, police jailed eleven known Communists, seized caches of small arms and munitions...
...Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish Waiters' Union (who boasts that in 1906 in Warsaw he led the world's first successful strike against tipping...
...members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted of "heinous crimes...
Impressed by some of Tillich's writings on Religious Socialism, socialistic-minded Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary had offered him a post at Union, but Tillich hesitated. He called on the Minister of Education in Berlin. "For a full hour," remembers Tillich, "we discussed the Old Testament and the importance to Christianity of the Jewish tradition. At the end of that hour I knew it was over...
...does not necessarily stay on theology; Paul Tillich believes that religion is "the substance of culture and culture is the form of religion." He has long been concerned with the insights of psychiatry; Psychoanalyst Rollo May, leading U.S. exponent of "existential analysis" (TIME, Dec. 29), studied under Tillich at Union Seminary, and continues to keep in close touch with him. He is also keenly interested in modern art, and has written and lectured extensively on how art manifests "ultimate reality...