Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berman Gibson, the leader of the pickets, smiles at these charges. His grin is a confident one, the smile of a man who is sure of victory. A big swarthy man who is gentle with his family but a powerful demagogic speaker with great charisma at miner's meetings, Gibson is actively preparing for a show-down battle this spring. He "knows these operators can pay the money," and several observers agree with him, as many of the mines in Perry country are mechanized...
Unlike Howell, who feels the need of union support and blames the UMW for "letting us down," Gibson thinks he must organize the country without the UMW and then let the UMW assume control. "If the UMW authorized this strike they would be too deep in law suits," Gibson says...
McCloskey based his view of White and Goldberg mainly on the Court's 5-4 decision late last month in Gibson v. Florida Legislative Committee, in which Goldberg wrote the majority opinion and White dissented. The Court ruled in Gibson that Florida may not punish the Miami branch of the NAACP for refusing to produce its membership list for a legislative inquiry into communism. Such an inquiry, Goldberg held, violates the rights of free speech and association of the First and Fourteenth Amendments...
McCloskey cautioned that the evidence of the Gibson case is not absolutely conclusive. Either new Justice could still surprise us, he said...
Their staff, with front liners Bob Gibson, Ray Washburn, Ernie Broglio, and Curt Simmons, and relievers Bobby Shantz and Diomedes Olivo, is not demonstratively inferior to the Giants...