Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nomination and tabbed Johnson as his running mate, he had hopes of wringing political gains out of the session by pushing through vote-catching welfare measures. But Kennedy's political gains from the session came to zero: no housing bill, no aid-to-education bill, modest minimum-wage and medical-care bills quite unlike those he had advocated, no sign whatever of the farm bill he promised at the Los Angeles convention. Said President Eisenhower at his press conference, keeping up his effective partisan needling of recent weeks: "The Democrats have a 2-to-1 majority in the Congress...
...powerful Rules Committee is needed to send a House bill into Senate-House conference. Backed up by the committee's long-time alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats, conservative "Judge" Smith handed Northern Democrats a tough warning: the committee would kill off Kennedy's $1.25-an-hour minimum-wage bill by bottling up the House bill (thus forestalling a House-Senate conference to work out a joint version) unless they agreed to bury the remainder of the Kennedy short-session program-housing, federal aid to education and a bill to ease Taft-Hartley restrictions on picketing at construction...
...rescue the minimum-wage measure from Smith's clutches, House Democrats had to agree to his terms. Even so, the House and Senate minimum-wage bills went to a conference loaded with conservatives, and it looked as if the final measure would be close to the House version (calling for $1.15 an hour, with coverage extended to 1,400,000 additional workers). "This isn't Kennedy's Congress," said one Kennedy man. "It's Judge Smith's Congress...
...raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are justified by ex-President Harry Truman on the ground that "it was my responsibility to force the Japanese warlords to come to terms as quickly as possible with the minimum loss of lives." Most U.S. military men, bent on unconditional surrender, backed him up. Last week the old question got a new airing in the wake of a report by Cowles newspaper Correspondents Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey, who were permitted to read still-secret State Department records of the Potsdam Conference while preparing a book about the Abomb. Their key points...
...present Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Verdi's Falstaff, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, O'Neill's The Great God Brown, Henry James's The Pupil, and Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon. After meeting its legally required minimum of 55% Canadian-originated fare, the publicly owned network will fill in with a mixed bag of U.S. imports including Have Gun, Will Travel, Dennis the Menace, Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Perry Como, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Ed Sullivan. CBC will get some of these shows before U.S. networks...