Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of exploiting unionism to build personal empires, two of the leading robber barons of the labor movement last week began to feel the restraints of the three-month-old Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill...
...themselves subjected to the special brand of Indian inquisition that used to feature a series of needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand dues-paying members. Eleven months ago a poll...
...month ago, Harvard and Yale simultaneously announced that they were withdrawing from the NDEA student loan program, pending removal of the affidavit. Then, at his press conference last week, President Eisenhower--although deploring the withdrawal of Harvard, Yale and other institutions--indicated that he understood their objections. He said that he favors repeal of the affidavit and retention only of the oath of allegiance...
Despite these developments, the bill for repeal--which was sent back to committee by the Senate last July--may face an uncertain future when Congress reconvenes next month. J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who administered the graduate fellowships under the NDEA last spring, says he is "hopeful about the Senate, but doubtful about the House." In his capacity as president of the Association of Graduate Schools, Elder has sent telegrams discussing the NDEA affidavit to Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and to Senators Lyndon B. Johnson and Lister Hill...
Ever since Adam, or rather ever since Eve joined him, mankind has faced the problem of overpopulation. But until less than a month ago, few people payed close attention to the danger of too many human beings...