Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Everywhere, in his plain, unangry way, he did his best to answer the charges leveled against him. He had only pledged support to the Fair Deal "in general," Graham protested. Though he was a member of the President's Civil Rights Committee, he was against any fair employment law based on compulsion, a position shared by many another conscientious Southern legislator. He was opposed to the Brannan Plan. He favored the present agricultural price-support program, said Graham. "In spite of some defects it has proved itself [by] bringing to a more equitable level the income of farmers...
...other plan found, as Clinton Golden puts it, "a greater era of mutual agreement between labor and management." Fifteen years ago, industrial relations were often in a state of civil war--there was no area of agreement. Since then, the general acceptance of unions and collective bargaining has set out at least a small area of agreement by contract on wages, hours, and working conditions. The Scanlon plan goes a big step further. By delegating some of management's responsibility for increased productivity to the workers, and regarding them for increase, the plan gives the two parties a wide area...
From the first, ambitious King Abdullah of Jordan had no intention of giving up the large chunk of eastern Palestine which his Arab Legion seized during the war with Israel. A few days after his cease-fire agreement with Israel in 1949, the King set up a civil administration for all of Palestine under his control, an area which includes the Old City of Jerusalem. Later he admitted Palestinian Arabs to his cabinet, then allowed the people of eastern Palestine to vote in Jordan's elections last April 11. Last week the King prodded his Parliament into formally unifying...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...
Bridgman won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for his work in "high pressure physics." Chafee, noted for his interest in civil liberties, was a United States delegate to the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information...