Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind closed office doors and in conference rooms, the Administration's carpenters sawed and hammered away at the big beams of the Fair Deal platform for 1950. In the White House, departing Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford polished up the State of the Union message. Across the street, in the rococo old building that once housed the State Department, Economic Adviser Leon Keyserling scribbled on stacks of yellow foolscap, drafting the President's economic report. Down another hall, Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. roughed out paragraphs and charts for a draft of next year's budget...
...afterwards as a researcher for Clifford During the 1948 campaign he wrote the backgrounds and many of the punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress...
...Clue. The news of the discovery touched off an immediate uproar. The union added another $25,000 reward (to a total of nearly $250,000) for information about the assailants of the Reuther brothers - Walter, whose right arm is still crippled by the attack on him, and Victor, education director in the U.A.W., who lost his right eye in an assassination attempt on him 13 months after Walter was shot down. Side doors to the U.A.W. headquarters were closed and locked and all visitors entering through the front door were thoroughly searched by police guards. U.S. Attorney General J. Howard...
...star of the show in Moscow, next to Stalin, was the fat, up-and-coming Georgy M. Malenkov, who made the principal birthday pronouncement. Western observers thought they detected in it the beginning of yet another of Russia's recurrent "peace offensives." Said Malenkov; "The Soviet Union considers the road of peaceful competition with capitalism as quite acceptable...
Close Call. For gaunt, 65-year-old Bustamante, the election was another close call in a public life that has been a succession of escapes and escapades. Since he rose to power in Jamaica as a spellbinding union boss (he is president "for life" of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union) he has been interned for sedition, charged with manslaughter (later acquitted) and engaged in any number of lesser scrapes with Jamaica's British rulers...