Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoffa's proposed alliance with the debt-ridden I.L.A. outraged A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass, who recognized it for what it was: a deadly threat to the three-year-old drive to clean up the New York waterfront. In 1953 the A.F.L. expelled the I.L.A. for flagrant and persistent corruption, and it was the teamsters' union that sparked the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, a new, "clean" pier union. Now, if Hoffa succeeded in switching teamster support back to the gang-bossed I.L.A., the I.B.L. was almost certainly doomed to extinction. Determined to prevent this, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany promptly...
...probably the greatest organizer in the labor movement." Jimmy's conception of organizational talent is a rather special one. "In those early days," he says, "Detroit was the toughest open-shop town in the country ... I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles I can't even remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back, and I did. Guys who tried to break me up got broken...
Sammy learned to gauge his customers. The late Joe McAuliffe, then covering politics for the Post-Dispatch and later managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once invaded Sam's bedroom for an urgent loan. "My pants were on the foot of the old brass bed." Bronstein recalls. "I told Joe to help himself to whatever he needed. He was a great newspaperman, and I didn't have to ever worry about an honest count from...
...Hall is a study in perpetual motion. In three years he has traveled an estimated half a million miles around the U.S., consulting the party brass, greeting the voters (he has an elephantine memory for names, faces and telephone numbers), giving pep talks to sagging local organizations, and keeping the Republican machine in good working order. In Washington he has exercised his talent for lowering ceilings by consolidating the national committee's office space, whittling down the permanent staff, thus saving $300,000 a year in rents and payroll costs. He meets nearly every day with the President...
...negative, defeated the Lowell affirmative team of Mark A. Michelson '57, Thomas M. Harrington '58, and Anthony M. Lamport '57. Thomas E. Baker '58, Thomas M. Bergen '57, and Robert B. Hill '57 upheld the affirmative for Dunster in their victory over Daniel J. Johnedis '57, Paul R. Brass '58, and Joel J. Schwartz '59 of Dudley...