Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As boss of the T.W.U., Cousins has modeled himself on Bevin. He is a hard-driving collective bargainer, proud to have won his truckers a 44-hour week, yet lecturing them: "I'll go forward on a 40-hour week without reduction in pay only on condition that every...
Question at issue: Should the House of Representatives accept the watered-down civil rights bill passed by the Senate? Joe Martin was all for shelving the bill in hopes of getting a better one in Election Year, 1958. But Martin and like-minded Republicans were fighting a lonely battle. They...
U.S. military policy against Soviet expansion, says Kissinger, has been inhibited by "our notion of aggression as an unambiguous act [i.e., a direct attack on the U.S. or Western Europe] and our concept of war as inevitably an all-out struggle" resulting in the enemy's "unconditional surrender." Against...
Mastering the Soviet strategy of ambiguity, contends Kissinger, requires some drastic revisions in U.S. diplomatic and military doctrine. The U.S. must be willing to spend money-and lives, too, if necessary-to nip small Communist aggressions. He does not in the least down-rate the basic importance of the Air...
In a time of growing public concern about inflation, United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther last week fired off an astute challenge to the presidents of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. He proposed that 1) the Big Three should cut prices on 1958 models by a specific $100 below...