Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slave labor" campaign against Taft-Hartley, the 30-man House Committee on Education and Labor last week approved a labor-reform bill that was even milder than the Kennedy-Ervin bill sent over from the Senate more than three months ago. G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck, coming from a White House conference, called the bill "a diluted version of a watered-down bill," thus fired the opening shot in the battle to force the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a strong bill or take the blame for none...
...tough Politico Charlie Halleck knew that the issues were not all that black or white. Key Democrats of the labor committee, in voting out the bill that he called "watered down," had marched uphill into the muzzles of Big Labor's biggest guns in one of the 86th Congress' bloodiest unsung battles. And it was Charlie Halleck himself who had provided six extra votes to push them over...
...white, yachtlike ship with its teardrop superstructure is largely President Eisenhower's dream boat. Following up his atoms-for-peace plan, he proposed in 1955 that an existing ship be equipped with an atomic power plant. Congress did him one better, the following year authorized an all-new nuclear vessel, turned the problem over to the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. The result is the $41 million, 22,000-ton Savannah, which, with its nuclear engine, will be capable of cruising without refueling for 350,000 miles over 3½ years...
...brought in a report on its six-week investigation of the nationalist uprisings last March in Nyasaland, the African territory run by London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self-government in 1960. The findings were one more direct slap at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's harried Colonial Office...
About 50 Japanese have been declared to be "living cultural assets." Among them are Kabuki and no actors, potters and painters, and even a couple of old folks who know how to do Kurume-gasuri, a rare, 150-year-old hand-weaving process using white cotton threads and blue dye to produce unique dappled patterns. Tomikichi Moriyama, 70, and his wife Toyono, 67, hand weavers, were delighted with the honor when it came two years ago. After all, only ten other weavers in Japan-most now too old for work-knew Kurume-gasuri] the Moriyamas' son Torao, like most...