Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Staying Power. From its start, the strike was marked by hatred and intransi gence between the negotiators; each side underestimated the staying power of the other. Inside the conference room, government mediators headed by Federal Media tion Chief Joseph F. Finnegan listened in dismay as the negotiators battled not to ward settlement but farther from it. Once, a union spokesman looked across at a Westinghouse official and bellowed: "You are a goddam tramp." On another occasion, I.U.E. President James Carey strode out of the room after calling Westinghouse "the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest company on the globe" Management dropped such remarks...
...Sauter-Finnegan dance orchestra will play at a formal dance in the Union, Thomas Gannett '59, chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, announced yesterday. The event will highlight the Jubilee Weekend which has been set for the last weekend in April...
With Eisenhower as the Republican entry, the Democratic nomination would certainly seem less appealing to the dark horse candidates who might have cut in on Stevenson's lead. Chuckled Stevenson's Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan: "Now they'll be sitting around hoping that lightning does not strike." This could only hurt New York's Governor Averell Harriman, who had based his "inactive" candidacy on the hope that he might be tapped after a convention deadlock resulting from a multiplicity of candidates. Harriman's age (64) makes 1956 a now-or-never proposition, and he probably...
When the union balked at that, federal mediators tried a new tack: they suggested that they and the fact-finding board, composed of two professional labor arbitrators, work with both sides to settle the dispute. After both sides accepted the mediators' peace-making proposal. Federal Mediator Joe Finnegan pointed skyward and sighed: "If this doesn't work, we will call on third-party assistance from upstairs...
Needed: New Adjectives. In the same setting, next day, Stevenson met reporters to answer questions. First, Stevenson announced that he had appointed Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth James Finnegan, a seasoned Philadelphia political veteran, as his pre-convention campaign manager. Finnegan's chief assistant would be Chicago Attorney Hyman B. Raskin, a former deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Acting as advisers would be former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and onetime (1946) National Housing Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt, who were the key managers in Stevenson's 1952 campaign. When a reporter commented that this...