Word: explained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justify the demand. Company spokesmen charged that the work rules foster "featherbedding and loafing," but never supplied a solid example to document the charge or a solid specific on how the authority to change the rules would be used. When Mediator Taylor asked Bethlehem Steel Negotiator John Morse to explain just how the work rules created problems in particular mills, Morse replied that he was "afraid the panel would get bogged down in details." Retorted Taylor: "Well, we're sure getting bogged down in generalities...
...lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite son (not to be confused with an all-out presidential candidate) and see what happens. Last week, urged by his advisers to proclaim that he is not a "serious" presidential candidate, Governor Brown took to the air to explain his position once and for all. On Meet the Press, the question was popped, and Brown answered it-leaving everyone as puzzled as ever. Said he: "I'm not a candidate at this time...
...weeks since the Democratic Congress passed the stiffest labor bill in history, the Senate-bred Democratic presidential hopefuls have seldom missed a chance to explain themselves to labor. Last week three of them (all voted for the bill) turned up at the United Automobile Workers annual convention in Atlantic City, but only one walked off with the house...
...this maze, lines of authority get tangled and jealousies flourish. Nobody in the Pentagon, from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy down, has been able to explain where Roy Johnson's bailiwick ends and Herb York's begins. York considers himself Johnson's boss; Johnson disagrees. Last year ARPA and the Air Force got into a prolonged squabble over whether or not U.S.A.F. would be stenciled on an Air Force rocket assigned to ARPA...
...week Iowa-born Gilbert Dalldorf, 59, won one of the 1959 Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory statuette) for following the White Plains footprints to Coxsackie and beyond, and also for showing that one viral infection may interfere with the development of another. (This may explain why, though Coxsackie and polio often coincide, one usually predominates and few if any patients seem to get both diseases...