Word: warring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the late Truman years and the Eisenhower years, Lewis showed labor statesmanship of the highest order. He continued to press for the wage increases that brought average U.M.W. pay from $6 a day in 1920 to $11.75 after the war to $24.25 today. He fought for, got, and managed with integrity a $150-million-a-year health-and-welfare fund, went to bat on Capitol Hill for important mine-safety legislation...
...teeth of competition from natural gas and oil, Lewis wrote the contracts to help the coal owners, came out unequivocally for automation and higher productivity even though that meant redeployment of many of his miners and a faster decline of his mighty U.M.W. from 600,000 after World War II to 430,000 today...
Even when the old bitterness subsided after World War I, France's traditional anticlericalism-a strain that runs from Voltaire to Sartre-remained just below the surface. In 1945, when De Gaulle set up his postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies that Vichy had set aside for Church-run schools. But still, one in five French children attended the church schools, though the buildings were often in miserable shape, and learning, except for the top Jesuit schools, suffered from ill-paid and inferior teaching. The question of state aid to Catholic...
...deal with restless Africans. DESCRIBED a wedding photograph of a white girl and an African as disgusting. SAID "when we defend White supremacy we are carrying out the Divine Will." Her Majesty's new appointee, noted the Daily Express, "opposed South Africa's entry into the last war" on Britain's side...
...Indian police patrol in Ladakh that was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Chinese last October (TIME, Nov. 2). Captured, Singh was treated with a mixture of brutality, buffoonery, cynicism and dishonesty, which indicates that Chinese methods with their prisoners have varied little since the Korean war...