Word: af
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced Roosevelt to enter. Since Smith's entries were all veteran politicians, Curley hit upon the idea of outdrawing them by appealing to all minority groups. So the Curley-Roosevelt slate included a Frenchman, an Italian, a Pole, a Negro, the President of the Massachusetts State Branch of the AF of L, and a Harvard professor. (In a later campaign he was to vary this approach by spreading it about that his Yankee opponent was in fact a Communist, and the Italian a Negro...
...positions on the work crews despite the complicated procedure of hiring which prevails in eastern Massachusetts. In this area, the unions, not the companies, do the hiring, but the Burke emphasized that he had been in touch with Michael Taralo, an official of the Construction and General Laborers Union, AF of L-CIO, and that Taralo assured him openings, would probably be plentiful...
...stimulating that Bridgeport, Conn, police last week banned teen-age rock-'n'-roll dance parties because the dancers "got out of hand." *Named, respectively, in honor of Cinemac tress Audrey Hepburn, af whose mere mention Saxophonist Desmond swoons, and Photogra pher Gjon Mili, who made a movie about the Brubeck Quartet. The title "Brubeck Time" commemorates TIME'S cove story...
Registration for the all-day Workshop will be between 9-10 a.m. George C. Homans, professor of Sociology, and Kenneth J. Kelly, secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts AF of L, will also speak...
Dunlop adjusts to his double life with a blunt, plain spoken charm which can put both students and labor leaders at case. His students talk of his habit of referring to the biggest men in labor and management by their first names. The head of the AF of L is "George," the Secretary of Labor "Jim." At a beer party he threw for his class, one student asked him about the recent resignation of Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...