Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maugham and two celebrated poets of the Harvard English Department will arrive at 4:30 o'clock in the famous Advocate barouche, that much creaking vehicle which has in the past conveyed the femmes fatales of the Ballet Russe, Barbara Button, and just last year a Radcliffe girl who claimed she was Anu Sheridan but didn't quite look the part...
...union to move in. But the A.F. of L.'s boilermakers got there first. Boilermakers are no longer boilermakers; the union includes welders, shipfitters, hook tenders, caulkers, riggers, shrinkers, flangers, "holder-ons." Some 70% of all shipyard workers in the West wear the union's button. But because payrolls change daily (men leave for the armed services, for better jobs), no one, not even union leaders, knows exactly how many members IBBMISBWHA has. Estimates are around 165,000 (Portland's local, largest, claims 50,000 members), and it is growing steadily...
...Senate Finance Committee shops. Rolled out on the floor last week, the Senate spent a short five days looking it over, nodded approval 77-to-0. If joint agreement with the House moves as quickly, the tax machine will be ready for the President to press the button...
...hour of voting drew close. Mead's backers put on the last ounce of pressure. There was a sudden scurry among the potent men behind the platform; Jim Farley rushed up to the stage, button holed Governor Lehman, took him back to the hotel kitchen. There, away from the turmoil, they conferred for ten minutes. Farley bustled into more conferences, with his friend Frank Kelly, with his enemy Ed Flynn. For the first time, Big Jim looked worried...
...trouble started when the management ordered employes to put on a green button when they left their work benches to go to the toilet. Practically all the workers were young; about 100 were girls. Walking around with green buttons that everybody understood embarrassed them...