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The preacher at the lectern was the Rev. William Howard Melish, around whose name has swirled the most extraordinary fracas seen in any U.S. church for a long time. In 1949 Long Island's Bishop James P. De Wolfe fired William Melish's father, John Howard Melish, as...
But in the federation's first internal fracas. Meany and Reuther proved tougher than Beck and Hoffa. As the Teamsters flexed furiously, Meany was asked who would solve the unexpected problem of evaluating which I.U.D. applicant unions were genuinely industrial. Grinned Meany: "Me. in the first instance." Beck and...
Six Winthrop House seniors were involved in a fracas with a gang of Boston teenagers outside the Savoy nightclub on Massachusetts Avenue late Thursday night. One undergraduate suffered a two inch gash under his chin, the only injury received during the minute long tussle.
At least 50 upperclassmen were still without their Cornell game tickets last night in what was shaping up as another Saturday morning fracas at the H.A.A.
Fifteen times during the week, the Mundt Committee or various combinations of its seven members met in various offices and corners of the Capitol. Purpose: to seek agreement on what to report about the McCarthy-Army fracas. Early in the week, newsmen were "reliably informed" that the Mundt Committee had...