Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organizer for Hoffa's Central Conference of Teamsters, Baker visited Miami, there lavished $25,000-in Teamsters Union funds, naturally-on a house, swimming pool and Buick for his doxy. Since 1953 Baker has spent $2,200-also in Teamsters' money-for sanitarium treatment that brought his weight down from 420 Ibs. to an oafish...
When Bill and Lannie were twelve, their parents, both born in slavery, moved the family to Arkansas. Bill did his farm chores under duress. All he really wanted to do was make music, and when he was 18, he headed for Chicago. He got a job on the Illinois Central Railroad, but he lived for evenings and weekends when he could hang out at the Moonglow or the 308 Club or one of the other wonderful, schizofrantic jazz joints that flourished in the Chicago of the '20s. Soon Big Bill was playing far and wide with the best...
...from the Laplanders of the north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...
Like a mosquito at dusk, Manhattan Financial Consultant Randolph Phillips, 47, has driven many a big corporation to distraction with his stinging jabs at management control. His favorite target is railroads. Turning on his onetime associate, New York Central Railroad Chairman Robert R. Young, Phillips harried him so persistently through the courts that Young hardly dared go to Manhattan for months before his death because he feared Phillips' summonses. Last week Randy Phillips himself got swatted. He not only lost a court fight over his campaign to win a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad's board but also...
...luxury of commuter lines"), Alpert will put pressure on New York State to open its own treasury by lowering rail taxes or subsidizing commuter trains. Other Eastern lines will also use the Massachusetts precedent as a wedge in their campaign for local aid. In New York, the New York Central is particularly anxious for state or municipal help, threatens to halt commuter service unless it receives...