Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he got his first look at Manhattan and knew instantly that the big town was for him. But he had been a writer since he was twelve, when his father printed his first piece, a poem, in the Old Man's Pueblo Chieftain. By the time Damon hit Manhattan he had been soldier, sportswriter, boxing promoter, and manager of a saloon's ball club. He had knocked around enough to pick up flavor for a thousand short stories, and he was soon selling them, at $30 to $100 apiece. Eventually his name on a front cover...
...ended their 17-day walkout last Saturday was not many more than 10,000 with the largest number reported in the southern Appalachian and Hlinois districts. Some of the mines were still shut down because the miners had not received official return-to-work word from their union chieftain, John L. Lowis, while coal disputes and repairs kept others idle...
Joseph Arthur Padway, bullnecked, grey-haired, 55-year-old defender of John Lewis, is general counsel for the A.F.L. and the archetype of the U.S. labor lawyer. As confidant, adviser, defender of Jimmy Petrillo, Dan Tobin and many another A.F.L. chieftain, Joe Padway has written both labor history and labor law, could boast of many a thwacking from Columnist Westbrook Pegler. He was born in Leeds, England, came to the U.S. as a youth, was admitted to the Wisconsin...
...deputies in Mexico's new Congress comes from Monterrey. It is no secret that his election was mainly due to the well-organized vote of the independent unions. But Monterrey also hopes for much from President-elect Miguel Alemán. José (Don Pepe) Muguerza, the driving chieftain of the "brewery group," campaigned for him, admires him as an administrator and for that quality most urgently required by the regiomontano, "ability to get things done...
Perhaps the first University man to be hit by the new regulations, which were announced two weeks ago by Major General Lewis B. Hershey, draft chieftain, was an unidentified Brooklynite who, Miss Cabral said, has been called for reclassification by his local board because his active service in the Army was less than six months...