Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason No. 2 was a smaller city revolt -small businessmen angry about tight money; housewives disturbed about higher food prices and inflation-expressed in terms of time for a change. Proxmire increased his vote over 1954 in Milwaukee County by 7%, breached G.O.P. strongholds in the suburbs. Smallest Democrat gains: in Milwaukee's two predominantly Negro wards...
...wooing business agents and local leaders, establishing a machine which owes allegiance only to Hoffa. He maintained it by virtue of his famed reputation as a tough negotiator of union contracts and a self-styled protector of the ranks. While conspiring with hoods, he has won the confidence of businessmen and has even assumed a stance of labor statesmanship...
Cons & Confidence. The mark of Hoffa's skill is that he has been able to win widespread confidence on both sides of the bargaining table while borrowing money under curious circumstances from businessmen with Teamster contracts, consorting with hoods and ruthlessly pushing around local Teamster leaders who got in his way. He teamed up with New York Racketeer Johnny Dio to discredit old-time Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey and to dethrone Martin Lacey from the presidency of the powerful New York Teamsters Joint Council 16 (some 60 locals). Hoffa succeeded ultimately: his man John O'Rourke finally...
...road to Damascus. Western correspondents suddenly found the offices of Syrian political and military leaders more accessible than in years, as if to prove all the earlier headlines untrue. The Syrian government, worried by the abrupt ups and downs of its currency, sought to reassure conservative Syrian businessmen that a leftist government in power need not mean expropriation. Three Syrian trade officials flew off to Moscow, anxious to justify the press stories of bountiful Soviet aid "without strings attached." They took with them ambitious requests for Soviet rubles to build roads, railroads and a Euphrates irrigation dam to rival those...
Benefits & Bargains. At a time when many businessmen glared at giving workers a say in working conditions, the brothers out-unioned the unionists in 1898 by launching the Filene's Cooperative Association: clerks and salesgirls were elected to the store's board of directors, were sole arbiters of the store hours and holidays. The employee-directors did not work out. But other benefits took firm hold: an employee restaurant, a clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were...