Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James W. Estabrook, the dissident minority formed the Mechanical Trades Employees Representative Association (MTERA), and petitioned the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board for the right to bargain separately with the University...
...daughter Rose. When World War I broke out, Kennedy went to work for Bethlehem Shipyard in Boston as assistant manager, helped the yard break one production record after another. Chief thorn in his side was another ambitious young man, Navy Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt, who drove such a hard bargain that he occasionally reduced Kennedy to tears, and once, when Kennedy refused to deliver two battleships to Argentina until payment was received, F.D.R. ordered the ships towed out of the yard...
...ready to do as Detroit's newspaper strike approached its 20th week. Pressmen's Union President Freeman Frazee tried to split the two struck papers by marching his men back to the Free Press but not to the News; the maneuver only further antagonized both papers, which bargain together, and Frazee's delegation was stopped by a padlocked pressroom door. Then Jimmy Hoffa put in his unsolicited 2? worth. If the papers could somehow publish without pressmen, said the Teamster boss, the truck drivers would deliver them...
...founder and recently retired chairman of France's Simca, an Italian-born onetime Fiat salesman who set up his own factory in France in 1934, went on to become the enfant terrible of the French auto industry by taking over third place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
...fact, it is the few pieces like Miss Whitman's which make the Advocate easily worth a quarter. But unless more writers resist the seductions of flaccid free verse and tediously flat prose the Advocate will only be a decent buy, not a bargain...