Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LABOR: While the President asked for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14-B, which allows states to have right-to-work laws that prohibit compulsory union shops, any real presidential pressure to force this measure through Congress would almost certainly create an uproar. It might harden the conservative-liberal schisms in both houses to the point where Johnson could lose valuable support on other more important bills. Though repeal of the clause was demanded in the 1960 and 1964 Democratic platforms, there seems little likelihood the President will risk a fight for it now. Says Mansfield...
From then on the rink was in an uproar as the Eagles frantically pressed for the equalizer. Harvard goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, who had turned in some phenomenal saves to keep the Crimson in the game, didn't have a chance when B.C. finally found the range...
...pictures" to anything in a parka that came too close. One night two agents accompanied Bobby, Jackie and the Smiths on a brief visit to two Aspen taverns. On another evening, the clan joined the McNamaras at the Golden Horn. On both occasions, the jukeboxes raised the only uproar. "Who's got time for the Kennedys?" demanded one Aspenite. "I've got invitations to six cocktail parties tonight, and I can't go to any of them because I'm giving one myself...
...first Moser seemed somewhat bewildered by the uproar. But he quickly recovered his poise, renewed the argument in a face-to-face showdown with the Russians. Soviet Editor Aleksandr Chakovsky, one of the party, protested-but Moser had already ticketed Chakovsky as an ex-agent of the Russian secret police. "I decided the attitude should be on the tough side of neutral," Moser summed...
...rules against receiving gifts. Other companies suggest that presents be passed on to the Salvation Army or a similar charity, and some just send them back unopened. But throughout U.S. business, executive Santas-and happy recipients -are still more common than not. The main concession to the gift-giving uproar of a few years back is that many more gifts are quietly routed to homes instead of to offices...