Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention this December. Hoffa has appealed to Meany and his executive council to drop the ouster movement, but the Ethical Practices Committee has already gone too far to back down now. The result of a clear split between the AFL-CIO and the giant Teamsters bloc would be a labor war injurious both to national business and to the unions themselves. In more clement times, the two unions have had to depend on each other; the AFL-CIO on the Teamsters for transportation, and the Teamsters on the AFL-CIO for contracts. If the two groups split, the result would...
George's will may add his 20% to John's 20% in a foundation to hold the brothers' 40% share of A. & P. in one bloc. But A. & P. ownership is now split off from management, since Burger, 68, is neither an heir nor a trustee of the Hartford fortune. So far, all the Hartfords want him to continue managing the store. Since the stock earned $19.21 a share last year, up from $16.09, and paid $7 a share dividend while A. & P. grossed $4.5 billion, there is no reason to change...
...pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they sent tanks and MIGs to Egypt's volatile Gamal Abdel Nasser, saw them smashed in the Suez crisis. Now there was Syria. "There," said Dulles, "Soviet-bloc arms were exultantly received and political power has increasingly been taken over by those who depend upon Moscow. True patriots have been driven from positions of power by arrests or intimidation. One consequence of this is that Turkey now faces military danger from the major buildup of Soviet arms in Syria...
...fear of German aggression--the fear that the Germans will seek to regain the land which was ceded to Poland after World War II as a reparation for Russian gains in eastern Poland--that the Poles feel they have at the moment a greater common interest with the Soviet bloc than with the Western powers. The West has repeatedly backed Germany's claim to the disputed territory...
Issue before the Congregation: whether to vest some of Janssens' appointive powers in the Assistants or Provincials. Insiders believe that the delegates will plump for more power for the Assistants, fearing too much decentralization otherwise. But one powerful bloc-from the U.S. and Britain-favors increasing the Provincials' local powers. Since agenda and voting are secret, the decision may not be known till after the two-month meeting is over...