Word: garments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spreading sycamores, skirting the garden with its orange zinnias and lavender petunias, purred the Cadillacs and Chryslers of organized labor's leaders. The executive council of the combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. met last week at "Unity House," the $5,000,000 Pennsylvania summer resort of David Dubinsky's garment workers' union, to answer an important political question: Should the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially endorse a presidential candidate this year...
...year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
When the New York Daily Mirror's syndicated labor expert left a radio broadcast in Manhattan late one April night, he and his party were trailed to Lindy's restaurant by sallow-faced Gondolfo Miranti, 37, an ex-convict and garment-industry thug with a long record of arrests. From the next table, Miranti kept an eye on the group. As they prepared to leave, he moved swiftly outside, whispered urgently to Telvi, who stood in the shadows. Seconds later, Riesel emerged, and Telvi stepped forward...
...annual drive of the Community Chest . . . There exists the closest and most intimate bond between the Catholic Church and some locals of the United Automobile Workers or the United Steel Workers, between Protestant churches and some locals of the Rubber Workers, or between Jewish congregations and the Garment Workers locals in New York...
...cried: "I want to say to you that this hat is in the ring - this is a hat you gave me, and no one is going to take it away from me." He made his announcement less than 24 hours after David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a vice chairman of New York State's Liberal Party, had told the hatters that Harriman should get out of the race in favor of Stevenson. (Snorted a Harriman supporter in disgust: "After all the patronage they've gotten!") Said Harriman: "I believe in the unity...