Word: chieftain
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...WINDS are changing; the bloom is fading from false mandates," labor chieftain Lane Kirkland said Saturday. And the size of his audience lent credence to his words--close to 300,000 trade unionists were crowded onto the Mall in our nation's capital to say they were sick already of President Reagan's economic policies...
...convicted of murder in 1975. Two years later, his conviction was overturned on appeal. Meanwhile, Picardo began to talk and the FBI found him to be a credible witness: his testimony has led to three convictions. Picardo claimed that Donovan had made several payoffs to Anthony Provenzano, a Mafia chieftain and Teamsters Union boss. But after examining 90,000 canceled checks and a similar amount in invoices at Donovan's firm, the FBI could find no corroboration for Picardo's charge. Donovan called his accuser "a pathological liar and murdering slime." Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch noted that Donovan...
...understanding of himself and what it means to be a westerner. For the 90 days of winter, 1978-79, Doig holed up with Swan's words in the most intimate of relationships, becoming his great admirer. As Doig writes of Swan's friendship with a young Makah chieftain, "Such a growth of regard sometimes will happen when two people are cupped together in a single happenchance season of closeness...a kind of adopted kinship, stronger than differences of blood can ever...
George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
Joseph A. Ujhely Esq., Lorain County Democratic chieftain, head of Ohio's 1976 delegation to the Electoral College, son of a steelworker and a running guard for Ohio State, dismisses the poll as a lot of crap. The purple-and-yellow tie with the silver sheen ripples as Ujhelyi conducts an experiment to see just how far he can lean back in his chair and still see the visitor over the paunch. Each word is an effort, a patented statement issued forth from the right side of his mouth. The left seems almost hermetically sealed...