Word: filings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporter in Asia since 1958, Lederer has made it his job to get what he calls "the real facts" about the conditions in Asian countries. A copious note-taker, he follows one uncompromising principle: the truth can only be found by talking to the rank-and-file people of a country...
...Democratic chieftains is the increasing independence of the labor vote, a cornerstone of the urban coalition that Franklin D. Roosevelt structured a generation back. There were significant blue-collar defections last year in such Democratic strongholds as Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville and Memphis. Often, rank-and-file resistance to Negro demands is responsible. In the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Democratic Senator Paul Douglas' 1960 vote of 19,678 was cut to 7,823 last year after a series of racial clashes. In a labor area in California's Alameda County, a 59% Democratic majority...
...zeal and efficiency. Though skeptics might reverse his slogan-"Good government is good politics"-King Richard has made it work well enough to satisfy the "big mules" of Chicago's power structure. Nudged by the nation's most formidable political machine, the city's rank-and-file voters agreed...
Unitarian President Dana McLean Greeley said that the survey confirms his church's conviction that it represents "a small, intellectually and socially advanced segment of society, not the rank and file." The segment is growing. Unitarian membership within the past decade has doubled to 276,944, and church leaders expect it to reach...
Western businessmen may still be wary. Yugoslavian firms are unalterably state-owned, run by managers vaguely responsible to "supervisory councils" of workers elected by the rank and file. Foreign partners will receive no legal ownership status-not even a seat on the often obstreperous workers' councils, which have been known to vote themselves unconscionable wage increases. As far as a voice in management goes, investors can lay down policy guidelines when they sign initial contracts with individual Yugoslav companies; thereafter they will be pretty much limited to keeping unofficial advisers at the Yugoslavian managers' elbows...