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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft-Hartley Bill, as well as being disastrous to organized labor, has been called impractical by a number of industrialists who realize the immense power of labor whether or not they have the legal sanctions to use their power. The Wagner Act, far from giving power, allowed the unions to argue in the conference room rather than fight in the street. The men in management who realize that laws do not give power but only recognize it, see that the bill will hurt them almost as much as it will hurt labor. If the President uses his veto, he would...
...Flaubert's, Joyce's) and yet is distinctly his own: rapid, brilliantly metaphorical, daintily savage and smooth. The reader, never bored, can run his own blue pencil through Nabokov's excesses, such as the "anal ruby" of a bicycle. He will not have to use the pencil often...
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. On the March 1947 TIME Current Affairs Test, the scores of TIME readers (as reported in letters to TIME's editors) averaged 78, ranging from...
Most of the University's athletic facilities will be open five days a week all summer. Tennis courts, behind the Business School, have been readied for use from 11 to 5 o'clock. The pool will be open for business at 11:15, 12:15, 2 and 3 o'clock. Upstairs a few flights in the Indoor Building, there will be push-ups at 12:15 o'clock for those who want to work off excess baggage...
Capital contributions amounted to $5,769,717.30 with funds donated for immediate use coming...