Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coiffure. He began interviewing teachers and students, principals and athletic coaches. In their consensus, San Antonio's 26 fraternities and sororities were a good deal worse than a nuisance. "They have ceased to be social groups," one principal told him. "They have become gangs." The kids' societies were going in for lavish parties in downtown hotels. Some of them cost as much as $25 a head. One boy had been nabbed for stealing a watch. His reason: to get some money to pay his dance assessment...
...rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
...statute can be made to represent the consensus of responsible labor and management leaders. The Railway Labor Act of 1926 was such a consensus. In the present state of collective bargaining the new statute need not be thrust down the threat of labor or management. The time has passed for more "get even" laws. Management's lessons from the Wagner Act and labor's from the Taft-Hartley act have created an awareness to the rights of the other party and a greater sense of public responsibility. There are signs that the administration intends to follow the course of consulting...
...occasion of a new labor law is a challenge to establish the principle that henceforth the legal framework of collective bargaining shall be shaped largly by the consensus of labor and management...
...huge open-air Bowl, Conductor Eugene Ormandy roamed over it with an orchestra of 120, including an organ, two harps and a mandolin; two choruses of 350 each; a boy's choir of 100; seven vocal soloists and a separate band of eight trumpets and four trombones. Consensus: outdoors was the safest place to hear...