Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought bedlam with him. He rolled unannounced into the hiring hall of the International Longshoremen's union, embraced the union's Red-lining Boss Harry Bridges as tovarish, genially swapped his felt hat for a longshoreman's white cap. Wearing his new cap, he paid a call on International Business Machines Co. President Thomas Watson Jr., toured the IBM plant at San Jose, watched a thinking man's brain as it chattered through its electronic paces, lined up for lunch in the company cafeteria. There, for the first time he uttered a telling sentence that upset...
Reuther: Freedom is everybody's business. You are always expressing a concern for the workers of Asia. There is a thing called international labor solidarity. When I was in Russia, I was a member of a union, and it was what we would call a company union...
...what we call what you represent-capitalist lackeys...
...press conference, Stevenson reiterated his "no candidate" stand-with a notable escape clause. "Time and time and time again I have said that I am not a candidate. If you ask about a draft and things of that sort-these things I have not yet contemplated." After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson...
...Senate following the defeat of the pay increase. "After all, we cannot attract professors with fresh air and a small town atmosphere. And the idea of a 'dedicated teacher' who completely ignores his salary is a great deal of bunk," Mather cuttingly remarked. Two days later, in order to call public attention to the legislature's actions, the president resigned his post effective June 30, 1960. He showed no intention of dropping his fight, however. "During this, my final academic year at the University of Massachusetts," Mather wrote in his resignation statement, "I plan personally to carry the major problem...