Word: boldt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...
Treble Refunds. Even so, the substantial spurts in living costs during earlier months have created a rising feeling of frustration among the nation's workers. At Congressional Joint Economic Committee hearings last week, Pay Board Chairman George Boldt boasted that wage increases allowed by the board have averaged only 4.3% since Phase II started in November. Committee Chairman William Proxmire* observed that "wages are being controlled more effectively than prices...
Meanwhile, Judge George Boldt's Pay Board thumbed down a 20.9% first-year raise for West Coast longshoremen. The board voted instead to allow a 14.9% increase, generous by almost any standard. The move represented the first time that the board had refused any sizable demand from a union with the clout to inflict serious damage on the economy by striking. The board did reduce an aerospace workers' contract increase from 12% to 8% earlier this year, but that industry was already so weak that the workers were not likely to risk walking...
...many unionists. The labor men, for their part, have taken to sending alternates to most meetings. The choice of AFL-CIO President George Meany, who has been recovering from an attack of chest pains, is Nathaniel (Nat) Goldfinger, his acerbic director of research, whose constant needling frequently infuriates Chairman Boldt, who is a Federal judge from Tacoma...
...week the board is scheduled to begin considering its third position in six weeks on employee merit raises, after members decided that their first two decisions would prove unworkable or unfair. Such backtracking has convinced many critics that the board lacks top leadership. Woodcock, for one, has said that Boldt "may be an excellent Federal judge but in my opinion he is not qualified to be chairman of such an important body" as the Pay Board. Boldt strenuously rejects such criticism. "I have not just been sitting on my fanny around here," he told TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan...