Word: cooperation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody knew that the Lord was supposed to soften the heart of John Downey Cooper Jr., 69, owner and son of a founder of the Harriet-Henderson mills. Long regarded with paternal affection by his employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year-old contract a year ago. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that...
...mostly farmers recruited from as far away as Virginia. Despite the presence of more than 100 state highway patrolmen, violence flared at the mill gates. Coming in the role of peacemaker in March, Governor Luther H. Hodges, himself a onetime textile executive, helped to achieve a settlement, publicly accused Cooper of "misleading" him when the settlement blew up. In May, behind the bayonets of 300 National Guardsmen, the mills resumed three-shift production, with fewer than 100 union members at work...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...
...Betta Kappa Honor Society yesterday elected the following Harvard seniors: Michael J. Atkiss, of Dunster House and Brooklyn, N.Y., a concentrator in Biology; Edward M. Baum, of Quincy House and Evansville, Indiana, Architectural Sciences; Paul A. Buttenweiser, of Quincy House and New York City, History and Literature; Joel D. Cooper, of Lowell House and Charleston, W. Va., Chemistry; Paul D'Andrea, of Lowell House and Belmont, Physics; Patrick Henry III, of Lowell House and Dallas, Tex., History and Literature; Richard B. Hines, of Lowell House and New York City, Romance Languages...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...