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...fact, the name C.J. Fox adorns the mediocre likenesses of hundreds of wealthy and famous Americans, both living and dead. They include Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Oilman H.L. Hunt, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, AFL-CIO President George Meany and Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...also planned to press his case before highly skeptical American Jewish leaders, meet members of the House and Senate Foreign Relations committees, and work in visits with such varied personalities as former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and the AFL-CIO's secretary-treasurer Lane Kirkland...
...appointment as "imaginative" and "inspired." Peter Peterson, head of the newly merged investment banking house of Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb Inc. and a longtime friend of both Burns and Miller, said of Miller: "He's a highly sophisticated, aware, dedicated and mature business manager and human being." AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, an archenemy of Burns, praised Carter for dropping the old chairman and "moving away from the discredited policies that created the last recession. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said that he might vote against Miller's confirmation because of his lack...
Brash and boisterous as ever, the barons of Big Labor convened in Los Angeles last week and confidently put forward their Christmas list. While 3,000 AFL-CIO leaders cheered, President George Meany, 83, declared that the Government should spend billions to create millions of jobs; should refuse to cut taxes on business; and should limit imports. "Free trade," he declared, is "a joke and a myth." But the familiar bravado had a hollow ring, for organized labor is in trouble. Its leadership is out of step with a nation that is increasingly worried about inflation and annoyed over Government...
Organized labor views J.P. Stevens & Co., the nation's second biggest textile company, as the key to organizing the booming Sunbelt-precisely because it is, in the eyes of the AFL-CIO, the nation's "No. 1 labor-law outlaw." If this most antiunion of all companies can be organized, the theory goes, so can any other firm in the sparsely unionized South or anywhere else in the U.S. Accordingly, unions have called for a nationwide boycott of Stevens' goods, and sought and won several court convictions of the company for unfair labor practices...