Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were suety Dave Beck, president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was unable to "recollect" teaming with a union-busting racketeer to defeat the work of his own union. Beck, Hoffa and dozens of similar stripe were precious poor exhibits for Peter McGuire's better age and more chivalrous time...
...committees moved separately but on parallel lines toward a "compromise" immigration bill. Immigration to the U.S. would stay just about where it was, at 155,000 a year, parceled out in national quotas that favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe as against harder-pressed people from Southern and Central Europe. As for the 24,600 Hungarian refugees "on parole," the House Judiciary Committee considered the President's request for permanent status, voted it down by 15 to 11. The Senate committee ignored it completely. So the 24,600 Hungarians-"freedom fighters" was once the term-would have...
...Tony Doria never erased any of the committee's charges that Doria 1) had both hands deep in the international's till, and 2) helped Dio transfer phony U.A.W.-A.F.L. charters to the Teamsters Union, thus enabling the racketeers to take over New York's powerful central Teamster outfit, Joint Council...
...therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public opinion, the elections were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west Java, stronghold of the Moslem Masjumi Party, they had apparently replaced President Sukarno's Nationalists as the second strongest...
...back into the house. When other girls were putting on lipstick, she was playing stickball. When she got a whipping, she never cried. She just stood there and took it." At P.S. 136, Althea was a chronic truant; she played hooky and played Softball with the boys in Central Park. She also played forward on a basketball team called "The Mysterious Five," which practiced at the 134th Street Boys Club and scheduled as many as four games a week with local industrial clubs. "I just wanted to play, play, play," says Althea. "My mother would send me out with money...