Word: deadhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovemaster of Ziegfeld Follies girls, that Erie beat the "bangtails," the cards and the dice, and hobnobbed with big-time Broadway mobsters. On a hungover losing streak, Erie knows that he desperately needs another Hughie, and the question is whether the new night clerk, a mousy, laconic deadhead (Jack Dodson), can be conned into the role...
...Leading Deadhead. In the earthy forum of Louisiana politics. Russell has always held his own. Just three years after he went to the Senate, he opposed Uncle Earl by supporting Representative Hale Boggs for the governorship (both Boggs and Earl's candidate lost). Earl, who had previously called Russell "an improvement on his uncle and also on his father," decided he was. instead. "Louisiana's leading deadhead." Russell is not without the Long gift for homey summary himself, once demolished the present Governor, Jimmie Davis, in one simple statement: "He's only got his own personality...
...often dodge the issue. If dissatisfied, they simply sell out and put their money elsewhere. The one man who is still a threat to unbridled corporate power is the raider. Though he is now considered "almost illegal," says Dean Rostow, he performs a useful service by getting rid of deadhead management, or even by carrying on a fight that frightens management into reform. One suggestion for restoring the stockholders' voice: trustees to vote their shares, watch out for their interests...