Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President because he is unacceptable to the big city and labor leaders who form the nucleus of traditional Democratic party power. Columnists like Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Stewart Alsop, and James Reston have consistently passed along the information that Democratic powers like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and AFL-CIO President George Meany cannot support McGovern's candidacy. They have, however, rarely been able to quote sources to back up their claims...
...Washington, Albert J. Zack, the Director of Public Relations for the AFL-CIO and a spokesman for George Meany, said Friday that the nation's largest labor organization is taking no position "except that we are absolutely opposed to George Wallace and we will fight him." Zack added that Meany himself will be "neutral until after both conventions...
Agnew kept faith with the American dream. A civilian again, he began to find himself as an underdog representing other underdogs. Negotiating contracts for AFL-CIO butchers as well as for black fishermen in Chesapeake Bay, he became a labor lawyer to warm the bleeding heart of any liberal...
...steadily climbing from a disheartening 9% in January to a respectable 19% in early March and, by late March, to a winning margin of 28% in the twelve-candidate field. McGovern actually took 30% of the vote. In a bobtailed telephone survey taken ten days before for the state AFL-CIO organization, Quayle was less successful in catching the Wallace surge...
...butcher for the world," pork chops that sold in September for 98$ per Ib. recently brought $1.19. "I'm no longer just buying meat-I'm investing in it," grumbled one typically exasperated shopper. Throughout the nation last week, food prices were a major concern. AFL-CIO Boss George Meany complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake to the TV screens and ask, as an ultimate...