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Word: bertrams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh-floor office on Manhattan's West Side, a glacially handsome man spoke coldly about his situation. Said Bertram Anthony Powers, 40, president of Local No. 6 ("Big Six") of the International Typographical Union: "All this pressure and complaint was expected. Management is always right and we're always wrong. That's the way strikes are. I'm not bothered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Hard Times | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

This in turn would force four papers closed by the strike to try to reach an early settlement with Local Six of the International Typographers Union. Bertram Powers, president of Local Six, stood beside the Post's publisher, Mrs. Dorothy Schiff, as she announced her decision yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK 'POST' TO RESUME PUBLICATION ON MONDAY | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...words were spoken by Bertram A. Powers, president of the International Typographical Union Local 6, which by striking four Manhattan dailies last December incited into silence all seven of the city's papers and two on Long Island. But the sentiment might just as well have come from the mouth of Amory H. Bradford, the publishers' chief representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Motion | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...issues which must be settled to bring the strike to an end are of three sorts. The organizational ambitions of Local Six of the I.T.U. and the personal ambitions of its president, Bertram A. Powers, have attracted the most public attention. Powers wants to get to the top of the international union; there is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it is no excuse for prolonging a strike. Local Six, for its part, wants to regain its position as top banana among newspaper unions. The I.T.U.'s former position of leadership is now occupied by the Newspaper Guild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Newspaper Strike | 1/23/1963 | See Source »

...wherewithal to last out a long strike. The Guild does not. On Monday, the Guild was forced to take the drastic step of mortgaging its headquarters to meet its obligations to its members. At the meeting where the decision was made, Guildsmen loudly booed the name of Bertram Powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Newspaper Strike | 1/23/1963 | See Source »

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