Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unconstitutional criminal sanctions." On that basis, the council directed A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany to lay the organization's objections before the House Education and Labor Committee next week. Even as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders were meeting, a vastly powerful outcast from their ranks was dramatically demonstrating the vital U.S. need of new labor legislation. In Brownsville, Texas, Jimmy Hoffa, president of the thug-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters, threatened anarchy if the Kennedy-Ervin bill is made law. Cried Hoffa to a regional Teamsters' convention: "If such a law is passed, we should have...
Even such severe critics as Flood agree that MATS is a vital part of the U.S. defense network, readily recall how MATS, under William H. Tunner, then a major general and deputy commander for operations, performed with dramatic efficiency during the Berlin airlift, and in 1956 brought 6,409 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a matter of days. Their chief fear is that MATS, now commanded by Lieut. General Tunner. is getting farther and farther away from its combat-carrying function as it steps up military passenger and cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial...
...concept, but Dr. Reynolds' exacting standards for what constituted an educationally clear display led to a better fullfillment of the Museum's research and educational purposes. The Museum was to be no longer an illogical collection of exotic items of anthropological interest but instead was intended to become a vital aid in the training of anthropologists. As Dr. Reynolds said so aptly, "The primary purpose of the Peabody Museum is the advancement of general culture by the creation of a new life interest among many of those who have the advantage of a college education and the training of experts...
...inexcusable that the Radcliffe Yearbook does not contain even one picture of the exterior of a Radcliffe building--not the Fay House gate nor Agassiz nor even a dormitory. And while the faculty is certainly a vital part of a Radcliffe education, devoting one-fifth of the total pages to the professors seems a bit over-generous...
Last week's Washington hearings showed how a small but powerful union can sandbag management. Ostracized by the other newspaper unions, the New York Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union (4,500 members) controls a vital link in the chain of distribution: its drivers pick up bundled papers at the loading docks, truck them to the city's 16,000 newsstands and to certain distribution points in the city and the suburbs. From this strategic position, as testimony last week revealed, the hoods who front for the haulers exacted more than half a million dollars in tribute-probably...