Word: chieftains
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...Chieftains started the nation' leading strike-our artist. Willy Boynton, and the right-hander asserted himself by striking out nine Crimson batters in the first four innings. Mean-while. Springfield's lethargic batting attack came to life and the Chieftain's led 3-2 into the fifth inning...
...business is not a government monopoly. In this electronic age, the feds, too, can be kept under surveillance. Lawyers for Joseph A. Colombo Sr. proved that with rare candor last week. They called Justice Department officials in New York City to arrange for the surrender of the reputed underworld chieftain (TIME, April 5) on a charge of running a $5-million-a-year gambling operation-before the warrant for his arrest had been issued. How did Colombo's men hear about it? They had a tap, they said, on the phone of the department's Brooklyn office...
...touch on the economics of Miss West and her jewels-this is the film version of her stage success Diamond Lil. And for that matter, there is some doubt about the "seriousness" of Shanghai Express, especially with such lines as that of Warner Oland's (playing the Oriental bandit-chieftain): "The white woman stays with...
...conspicuous exceptions of Teamster Bosses Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, no union leader in recent American labor history has drawn as much legal flak as Tony Boyle, irascible president of the United Mine Workers of America. The Labor Department recently filed suit against the 66-year-old labor chieftain charging numerous irregularities in his last election. A group from his own rank and file is suing him and other top union officials for $75 million for conspiring to misuse pension and welfare funds. And in Washington County, Pa., District Attorney Jess Costa is readying the trial...
That does not mean that the chief approves of all of the white man's ways. He appreciates the merits of democracy; the chieftain's headdress he wore for twelve years was won by popular election. Yet he is gravely concerned about some of the ignoble byproducts of civilization. "The biggest part of my work is helping our children," he says. "Now that they attend white schools, they've been getting into trouble. They're adopting the white philosophy, and drugs for the first time are becoming a problem to our people. In the beginning...