Word: action
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board's recommendations." U.S. Steel Corp.'s R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for eleven major steel companies, promptly blasted McDonald's suggestion as "just one more attempt" by union leaders "to avoid their own great responsibilities by seeking to have a settlement decreed by Government action." So obstinately opposed were the parties to the dispute that Chief U.S. Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan, without hope of meeting the President's plea for nonstop negotiations, said he would "schedule meetings as they seem most productive...
...highly approve the principles of Mr. Monro's plan," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House commented after the Masters' meeting. The proposals must be approved by the Committee on Educational Policy, the Committee on General Education, and the Faculty itself, before any action can be taken...
...unfortunate that Eisenhower did not openly support the universities when the Kennedy-Clark amendment was being debated by Congress, and it is equally regrettable that he does not now support their latest action. For it was the universities' decision not to administer the government funds that brought the whole issue of loyalty oaths to his attention. The stubbornness of Harvard, Yale, and other schools has placed the question of the disclaimer affidavit directly before the general public...
...sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
...estimated $120 million estate (TIME, Aug. 3). On the eve of the trial, J.J. threw in the towel, settled for a tax-free $250,000-a relative pittance that seemed little more than the price of sparing Vincent's executors the nuisance value of J.J.'s action. J.J. will be paid off by the Vincent Astor Foundation, whose main purpose is to improve the lot of the human race, especially poor folks...