Word: affectations
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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MINIMUM-WAGE BOOST is likely to be approved during this session of Congress, since Labor Secretary James Mitchell has said that a "modest increase" in the present $1 minimum will not adversely affect low-wage industries. Unions and most Democrats favor a $1.25 per hour minimum, Republicans a $1.10 to $1.13 per hour compromise...
...Jersey had indeed discussed prices. "But where's the price fixing in that? Jersey Standard is a holding company-it has no prices. No court has held that parents can't discuss and agree on prices. A decision that this was in violation of the law would affect hundreds and perhaps thousands of firms. A drastic reorganization of the structure of business would result." The lawyers for the 29 oil companies moved for acquittal. Judge Savage upheld them. Said Socony Mobil Chairman Fred W. Bartlett: "The acquittal's coming without necessity of presenting our defense simply proves...
Railroads, Tariffs, Senate . . . The public has a right to know in detail about such matters. But none of these things so vitally affect the public as the press, daily and periodical. The public gets no news in regard to the news...
Since it involves basic Government policies that affect the lives of all citizens, the "growth" controversy may be the most important domestic issue of the 1960 campaign. But so far it has had little impact on public opinion. As the public sees it, the No. 1 economic issue by far is the high cost of living. Paradoxically, the public feels, by a margin of 8 to 5 in a Gallup poll, that the Democratic Party, rather than the Republican, is more interested in trying to hold down prices. In public opinion, apparently, the long spell of price upcreep beginning...
Reston has no compelling outside interests-except those that affect his work. "Mr. Reston," says Mr. Krock, "is not exactly what you would call a cultivated man." Reston says he has not read a novel in 20 years-but he has read practically every nonfiction work that he thought would be valuable in improving the way he does his job. This self-education has helped make Reston a reporter who can write well on almost any subject from the public appeal of Elvis Presley to the pitfalls of relating contemporary America to the decline of Rome. Says Managing Editor Catledge...