Steel Parley Opened Amid Wage and Hours Clash
New York industry wide steel talks begin as the Steelworkers Union seeks shorter hours and higher pay. Four-man teams aim to reach a new contract before the June 30 expiry, with debate over employment security and balanced program proposals.
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New York
David J. McDonald
Steelworkers
R. Conrad Cooper
Cooper
U.S. Steel
Jacob K. Javits
R-Ny
Eisenhower
Turkey
Javits
Senate Labor, Banking and Economic Committee
McDonald
Rapid Job Recovery Reported In April Employment Rise
Washington reports April shows 1,184,000 more employed to reach 65,012,000 while unemployment falls 735,000 to 3,627,000. Strike gains in construction and durable goods manufacturing push hours up and earnings rise with factory pay up 63 cents to 89.87 weekly.
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Lewis Strauss
James P. Mitchell
Commerce-Labor Monthly
Strauss and
Mitchell
Government Abandons Tax Stamps Policy Change
The government will end liquor and cigarette excise tax stamps and shift to biweekly tax returns starting June 24. Four billion dollars annual stamp revenue will move to returns covering the prior 15 days, easing capital tied to stamp purchases for distillers and tobacco manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
James P. Richards
The
Tobacco Institute Inc
Ministers Open Session After Delay Over East German Issue
The Big Four foreign ministers conference opened three and a half hours late in Geneva after a debate over East German participation. A formal seating plan assigns separate German tables with the two German delegations and advisers, while the Big Four sit at a round table on one side. The West rejected full East German participation but offered limited speaking rights under conditions.
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Geneva
Palace of Nations
Christian A. Herter
Gromyko
Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
Asst
U.S
Andrew H. Berding
Berding
East Germany
West Germany
Belgian King Baudouin Arrives for 21 Day U S Tour
Washington welcomed 28 year old King Baudouin of Belgium who lands with full military honors for a three day stay. The monarch will tour the United States from Washington to Detroit, then across the nation ending May 31, in a historic first Belgian royal visit since 1919.
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Washington
Belgium
Baudouin
United States
National
Albert
Elizabeth
U.S
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Langley Air Force Base
Detroit
Titans Of Postwar Diplomacy In Obscurity Or Retirement
Geneva report surveys former big players Molotov Dulles Acheson Eden Bidault now absent from frontline talks. Herter Gromyko Lloyd Couve de Murville stand as new generation of diplomats with mixed experience ahead of a Big Four summit.
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Molotov
Dulles
Acheson
Eden
Bidault
Christian A. Herter
United States
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
Selwyn Lloyd
Britain
Maurice Couve de ‘Murville
France
Herter
Windstorms Rake Michigan Illinois Killing One in Ann Arbor
Spinning windstorms swept across the central Great Lakes and into Illinois causing major damage. In Ann Arbor a roof ripped off Yost Fieldhouse and a woman died from an electric line. Monticello Illinois reported structural damage and shattered windows with roof loss and fires.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Illinois
Ann Arbor
Monticello
Great Lakes
Plains
Midwest
Yost Fieldhouse
University of Michigan
Mobile
Ala
Tornado Leaves Deaths and Destruction Near Frisco Oklahoma
In Stonewall near Frisco, Lillian Thompson surveys wreckage from a weekend tornado that killed five neighbors and injured nine. Her husband worked in Ada when the twister struck. Neighbors describe the fast, fierce winds and a collapsed barn. rescue workers sift debris as families plan rebuilding.
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Stonewall
Okla
Lillian Thompson
Ada
Lillian
Brown Considered For Weep Brown Considered For Weep
California Governor Edmund Pat Brown draws attention as a potential 1960 Democratic vice presidential candidate. Aspirants fear losing California’s convention influence and aim to keep the delegation unified behind a favorite son to secure a trading position for Brown if he stays in the race.
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Washington
California
Edmund
Pat
Brown
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Stuart Syming
Churchill Returns Home From U S Visit With Wife
Sir Winston Churchill arrived in London after a possibly final U S trip. He spoke with emotion at Idlewild Airport as his wife greeted him with a kiss and A S Ambassador John Hay Whitney attended the welcome.
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London
Sir Winston Churchill
America
A. S
John Hay Whitney
Churchill
Winston
New York
Idlewild
Churchill Leaves U S After a Memorable Visit
Churchill aged 84 and ailing waved to hundreds at LaGuardia as he boarded a plane after seven days in the United States. He met President Eisenhower and former officials in Washington and spoke of unity between Britain and the United States in a farewell that moved onlookers. Meanwhile Henderson keeping peace as first shift workers return to Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills amid strike tension with local officers and state patrol on standby. Sentences note court activity for strike related cases as three workers face sentencing for driving through picket lines.
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Churchill
United States
Baruch
Central Park
Manhattan
Winnie
Washington
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
George C. Marshall
Britain
America
Poth
Mr. Baruch
Oie
Great Britain
Free World
Greensboro
Henderson
Vance Superior Court
Carl Neal
Leonard Barham
Hilton Parrish
Dulles Remains Unchanged As Pneumonia Persists
Washington AP reports former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles shows no improvement or decline in his pneumonia related to cancer. Eleanor Dulles flies back to Washington to be near home while Mrs. Dulles has been in Berlin for the State Department ahead of his illness.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Eleanor Dulles
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United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Max Petitpierre
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Kremlin
V. M. Molotov
Paris
Lloyd and Couve de Murville
Berlin
U.S. House
Free French “War Commission
Georges Bidault
Bonn
W. W. Scarbrough
Scarbrough
Burl Griffin
Thompsons
N.C
Harriet-Henderson
Vance County
State Highway Patrol
Northern
South Hen
Ashevanbenon
Wis
Julius Albert
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