Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAND. "A labor dispute occurs at a small plant. The union or the employer goes to the Federal Labor Board. The board says the case is too small for federal action [and] state officials can't do anything because the states have no authority. That leaves the worker and his employer in this no man's land ... So all too often the dispute is settled-if we can use such a word-by force ... I want to give the states authority ... I want the no man's land abolished...
Anne Roe, a pioneer worker in normal adult psychology, alcoholism, public health, and applied psychology, has been appointed Lecturer on Education. She will teach courses in Education and do research in guidance...
Oren Ethelbert Long, 70, U.S. Senator. A Kansas-born farm boy, Oren Long progressed from a one-room schoolhouse in Earlton to Tennessee's Johnson Bible College (Disciples of Christ) and the University of Michigan. He sailed to Hilo on Big Island in 1917 to become a social worker. Five years later he returned to the mainland to earn his second master's degree, in education at Columbia's Teachers College, then hurried back to the territory. For the next 22 years Long served ably in Hawaii's educational system, rose from high school principal...
...dealer network are so limited that, as Churchill says, "our car must sell itself." He constantly preaches quality, plasters plants with signs proclaiming, QUALITY CAN'T BE REPAIRED INTO A CAR. He fears that as the U.S. living standard has gone up, the pride of the U.S. worker in doing a quality job has gone down. "Mercedes-Benz products are the highest crafted autos in the world," he says of the West German cars that S.P. distributes in the U.S. "We couldn't build the kind of product Mercedes-Benz builds." Mercedes' maker, Daimler-Benz, also...
Peking has become so disturbed by this turn of events that the Peking Daily Worker complained that " 'more' and 'quick' are stressed, but 'good' and 'economical' are ignored" in Chinese industry, even suggested that "individually run enterprises" might be set up side-by-side with state enterprises. To woo back disillusioned businessmen, the Red Bank of China has taken the unprecedented step of accepting claims by traders seeking damages for substandard exports. So far, the Bank has seen fit to rule in the trader's favor only a few times...