Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OLDEST saws about Southern politics runs something like this: If only a politician in the South could run with the united support of blacks and blue-collar whites, he would be unbeatable. And since he wouldn't be tied to the rich whites who control the South, he could really change things. Only a very few Southern politicians have been able to put together this mythical coalition, but Jim Garrison, the six-and-a-half foot tall New Orleans district attorney who lost his third reelection campaign in December, remained politically powerful in New Orleans for years with a loyal...
...unjustified. But his unique bi-racial constituency, though helpful in winning elections, lost Garrison the backing of the daily press and major financial institutions. Because of this he ended up absorbing some of the criticism other politicians should have gotten. The main drawback, in fact, of the black-blue-collar-white dream coalition is that it will always face a hostile establishment. The only other politician in New Orleans whose constituency roughly approaches Garrison's, a councilman named Eddie Sapir, is another favorite target of the daily New Orleans press...
...young team, and only three seniors are scheduled to play tonight. Ned Yetten will guard the nets, captain Ray D'Arcy will skate on the fourth line, and Jim King will play third line right wing. Yetten recently returned to action after missing nine games with knee and collar bone injuries...
...three days a week, two of them have lost their jobs for repeated absences from work, and others have lost out on promotion opportunities. Eleven of the 23 jurors are employed by the Government and thus continue to draw full salaries. Some of the others, who include blue-collar workers and domestics paid on a daily basis, rely heavily on the money they get for each day they serve. Until last August, that was $20. Then Foreman Vladimir N. Pregelj, 46, a researcher for the Library of Congress, discovered a law entitling grand jurors to an additional...
...more systematically." Whatever the merits of his approach, it is likely to be too expensive for most trials; the profile poll alone would normally cost some $20,000. Schulman and all members of his teams have always donated their time. Recently he was asked to work for a white-collar criminal defendant, but he declined the chance to hire...