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Outside the U.S. Senate Chamber stands a bust of Harry Truman. Its nose gets dirty because visitors are always tweaking it-most of them affectionately, some not. Last week, as workmen were finishing the Capitol's annual housecleaning, the nose was immaculate-all was ready for the second session of the 83rd Congress...
...Workmen will begin pouring the concrete for the roof on Monday, and the whole auditorium is scheduled to be finished by July. Even aside from designing, it is a curious building, for it indicates a certain state of mind of the builders. In feeling that M.I.T. should innovate architecturally, they have spent the better part of two million dollars in creating a sweeping modern building and then balked at spending the last thousands which would give the stage a flexibility that the unregimented tastes of students demand...
...with private insurance. Anyone who is familiar with the development of social insurance abroad and in this country is aware of the fact that the benefit rights under social insurance are always established by specific statutory provisions and are not dependent on an individual contract. Thus, we have had workmen's compensation in this country for more than 40 years. This is a well-recognized form of social insurance which provides benefits to injured workers as a statutory right, enforceable by law, and not dependent on any individual insurance contract whatsoever...
...mission whose motto was "Towards a Better Life." All week long, 300 priests used 2,000 loudspeakers to urge "Christian solidarity" for the workers, "social justice" from the employers, and quoted the Pope's words: "The workers, objects of my special love." Bilbao's deeply religious workmen listened and hoped...
...workers, defying Spain's drastic laws against industrial strikes, stood at their machines, silent and unbudging. Escorted by armed guards, Don Elisardo strode among the workers, cursing and threatening. Silently they stared back at him, and would not work. Three truckloads of guardsmen drew up and drove the workmen from the plant. Sixteen of them were bundled into a Black Maria...