Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barrett Wendell chose History and Lit as the discipline with which to start the concentration system because, according to Perkins, he saw a "natural intellectual union" between history and literature. History was then taught mainly in terms of institutions--politics, battles and dates--and Wendell and his colleagues felt that a study of literature would make history come alive and that history would make literature more meaningful...
...Manufacturers' 63rd annual congress. In the kind of rousing talk that N.A.M. members like to hear, Summerfield warned that "America today teeters on the precipice of a labor-bossed Congress." was sure that President Eisenhower will propose legislation to protect workers "from exploitation by unscrupulous and corrupt union bosses." Unless antitrust law principles are applied to the "labor-boss monopoly" and businessmen become active in politics, he said, government and, "heaven forbid, eventually perhaps the White House itself" may be dominated "by a militant group of labor union bosses...
...Western's tracks. He learned that what was needed was radical modernization. He chopped the North Western's managerial deadwood, hired bright young railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from 26,300 to 18,500-but was a shrewd enough labor negotiator to avoid a full-scale strike...
High Wages. Even so, the boycott was more of a success than a failure. In the U.S. 16 unions, including the National Maritime Union, the Seafarers' International Union and James R. Hoffa's Teamsters, banded together to tie up PanLibHonCo ships, primarily in East Coast and Southern ports...
...PanLibHonCo nations. Costa Rica canceled the registration of 128 foreign-owned ships in arrears on tax payments, said it would go ahead with plans to abandon all convenience-flag registration at the end of this month. Greek shipowners agreed to negotiate with the Greek seamen's union for more jobs; U.S. unions said that they will continue to boycott...