Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis actually hate you." Hand in hand with Hoffa, Prince Hal rose to power...
Changing Currents. With such a plurality, many a candidate would sit back on his fat margin, trusting to God, motherhood and still squabbling Republicans to keep him out of trouble. Brown knew better than anyone that post-primary factors would still be working in his favor, e.g., on the November ballot will be a proposition to take tax exemptions away from Roman Catholic and other privately endowed schools; with a huge Catholic vote expected against that proposition, Catholic Brown can only be a beneficiary...
...candidates, might see more virtue in the man who can make up his mind as compared with the fellow who wants to please everybody. Moreover, in the primary Pat Brown had been able to retort to Knowland's right-to-work labor cry with his own recession-slanted back-to-work demands, California is now moving toward economic resurgence. More than that, Knowland's labor ideas, plainly stated and clearly understood, seem much more appealing in the light of a potentially dangerous West Coast strike by the corrupt Teamsters Union...
...finer compliment. Since the autumn day in 1946 when Melvin hurried home from the Navy to Orem, Utah, and married his high school sweetheart, a nice family and a happy, secure family life had been their goals. Melvin got a pharmacy degree, decided to switch to medicine, went back to medical school at the University of Utah. Loujean helped out their budget by working as a secretary, did her housework nights while Melvin studied and first baby Melvin Jr. slept. After Melvin graduated, the family moved to Seattle where he interned in the Public Health Service Hospital, then to Phoenix...
Already the Communists had established something close to a blockade of Quemoy. When the Chinese Nationalist navy early in the week tried to reinforce and supply the island, small, fast Communist craft drove the bulk of the convoy back to the Pescadores, and U.S. newsmen who succeeded in getting to Quemoy (see below) reported that no significant shipping had reached it since the Communists opened up their artillery assault three weeks ago. Five days later, in response to the Communist blockade, two U.S. heavy cruisers and six U.S. destroyers escorted a pair of Nationalist supply ships to Quemoy...