Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What He Wanted. But had it? Like his daddy, the late, loud Gene, who purposefully played the peckerwood, Hummon stood for 1) keeping "the Nigras" in their place, 2) keeping the wool-hat back-country control over the shoe-wearing big-city majority, 3) perpetuating in office the Talmadge dynasty, its heirs and assigns. That's what he wanted and that's what...
...Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along fine with Joe Ryan, the loudmouthed lifetime boss (at$20,000 a year) of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Some of the hoods hold cards in the union and go to big dinners for Joe. Joe is touched by this: "Some of the boys from the old ladies' home up the river [i.e., Sing Sing] . . . came down to the waterfront and made good," said he recently. "I'm proud to have my picture taken with them and proud...
...Henry Sealingwax's reception calls for young Bull's first big show of tact. "One of his chief duties is to be affable to bores." Each official party has important guests "devoid of social graces and who stand around in dreary isolation." Nothing, Cheke affirms, is worse than "dreary individuals standing in gloomy and solitary silence." To save the reception England expects young John Bull to find his tongue and chat...
General Rolón had lasted barely 30 days. His big mistake, after scheduling elections for April, was to invite Paraguay's thousands of political exiles to come home and vote. That was strictly contrary to the wishes of the dominant Colorado party, which ran last year's elections on a one-party basis. Colorado chieftains, who wanted to make Dentist Molas López President in April, began to suspect that Rolón was getting ready to stand as a candidate himself...
With prospects of a settlement dimmer than ever, other big unions talked of joining the printers' protest. Their common complaint: Peronista union bosses refused to negotiate for the raises which rank & filers thought they needed to meet the rising cost of living...