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Since the strike-delaying provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act had been exhausted in the dock dispute, the President sought to unscramble the tie-up by naming a special three-man mediation board headed by Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who served as an arbitrator in West Coast dock strikes before World War II. The mission assigned to Morse by the President was to settle as quickly as possible the last remaining issue between the longshoremen and the shippers-a union demand for a wages-and-benefits package totaling 61? an hour over the next two years. Flying...
...final decision is in the hands of a three-man Board of Trustees, appointed by the Governor. It is well known that two of the members frequently vote with the recommendation of General Manager McLernon. The third member, Chairman Daniel Tyler, is an insurgent member; he is the only Republican, and frequently votes against McLernon proposals...
...rooms and "chums" (the came originally from "chamber ') from the Class of 1966 was the project of a three-man commit- senior advisers, headed...
Banished Bull. As always, similar claims could be made around the country on many issues. But not in Birmingham. There the voters had long debated ways of replacing the three-man commission (including one man designated as mayor), which both made the laws and administered them. The proposal on the ballot was to scrap the commission in favor of a nine-member council and a separate mayor. When both the Birmingham News and Post-Herald backed the reform, Mayor Arthur J. Hanes not only quit talking to newsmen but threatened to turn them out of the city hall pressroom. Said...
Coming only six months after a government committee had urged a severe tightening of security procedures, the Vassall affair shook the government. Prime Minister Macmillan responded by ordering a three-man panel of civil servants to report by year's end how Vassall could have spied for so long without being caught, and whether there was any negligence by those who hired...