Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the new index is less sensitive to minor price fluctuations, it will probably provide unions with less of an argument for wage increases. Already C.I.O. President Walter Reuther has warned that the autoworkers will not accept an automatic changeover to the new index...
Hardly any Republican in Congress approves of the Truman Administration's floundering stabilization program. Nevertheless, Republicans do not plan to end all wage and price controls immediately after Jan. 20. Key G.O.P. Senators and Representatives want to give the new Administration a chance to work out an attitude toward controls. Michigan's Representative Jesse Wolcott and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who will head the committees most interested in controls, plan public hearings in early February. The general course Wolcott would like to chart...
...University of Mexico back in the days when Mexican girls didn't do that sort of thing. For years, as a teacher and playwright, she preached to her often unheeding countrywomen that political action is the best way for women to beat such problems as low wage rates, legal discrimination and the double standard of morality. Moving abroad as a founder of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, she is now president of the Organization of American States' Committee of Women in Washington. But throughout her career, she has been embarrassed that Mexico should...
...where he still owns 31 newspapers. By buying the Graphic for an undisclosed amount, Rothermere gets a free hand to do what he wants with the paper, may drop as many as 1,000 staffers from the Graphic's payroll. With the Graphic in hand, Lord Rothermere can wage a two-front war against 1) the Mirror, in the tabloid field, 2) the respected, full-size Daily Telegraph (circ. 991,092), which is owned by Lord Camrose, Kemsley's brother (TIME, Aug. 4). To wage his war, Rothermere can tone down his Daily Mail to lure readers from...
...pass this resolve, then, would limit the University, cut down its scheduling discretion and, in case the Ivy League produces a few powerhouse teams itself, force Harvard to wage football beyond its capacities. Common standards for admissions policy, scholarship grams, and other affairs basic to control of football are all very proper, but conformity on things like scheduling is not worth the impositions involved...