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...world of Frederic Cassidy, ABC is anything but simple. Cassidy, 77, demonstrated that last week when Belknap/Harvard University Press published the first volume (A-C) of his unique Dictionary of American Regional English, its 1,056 pages bulging with bits of vernacular from A, as in a-coming, to czezski, the word around old Chicago for a Czech or Bohemian (also butchsky). In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction, largely by the homogenizing influence of television...
Chemistry 150bScience Center C Economics 10 Sections: 22, 23, 48, 84 Burr A 51, 73, 74, 78 Burr B 34, 85, 94 Rm. 18, 2 Divinity Ave. 11, 36, 40 Geological Lecture Room 21, 31, 37 Jefferson 250 95 Science Center A 32, 46, 47, 49, 72, 77 Science Center B 33, 43 Harvard 104 44, 45 Harvard 201 38, 39, 41, 42, 75, 76 Memorial Hall Economics 1700 Science Center C English 171 Science Center D Fine Arts 13 A-C Emerson 210 D-J Emerson 105 K-L Fogg Christian Room M-Z Fogg Norton Lecture Hall History...
Just who was more surprised was not clear. In eleven bitter months the local lost almost half its membership to an independent union. A back-to-work movement had put 6,000 men at A-C's benches (more than half the normal strength) before the strike ended. Workers lost an estimated $20 million in wages. The company lost $65 million in production.* The union paid out more than $100,000 in strike benefits...
...plant in West Allis, Wis. had worn thin.* A back-to-work campaign had drawn about 3,000 of the approximately 10,000 workers into the plant, past the small groups of pickets of the Communist-led Local 248 of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers. A-C's up-from-office-boy President Walter Geist (TIME, June 10) was winning with his strategy of playing for time. (Strikes in five other Allis-Chalmers plants had been settled with the hallowed 18½? wage increase, but without the union shop which Local 248 insists...
Last week, after A-C had again broken off negotiations, Local 248's President Robert Buse (a crony of many an avowed Communist in Wisconsin) tried a desperate maneuver. Violating a court injunction, he threw about 800 pickets in massed formation in front of some of the plant's gates. The stage was set for violence. On four afternoons pickets and cops stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out. Clothes were torn off, nonstrikers' cars tipped over. About 5,000 people, many of them high-school kids, came out to the Milwaukee suburb and joined...