Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insurrections, most unions continue to be run as tight little clubs by entrenched leaders who keep a close rein through patronage and control of the union newspaper. "They just don't seem to groom heirs or successors," says Presidential Labor Mediator David L. Cole. Often a prospective new leader is as old as the man he may replace. Among the major leaders and their likely successors...
...five, he four when they were married in Westminster Abbey. But the year was 1478, when life was nasty, brutish and short. Within a decade, the groom, Richard, Duke of York, was murdered in the Tower of London, along with his brother, King Edward V-according to legend by order of their uncle, who afterwards reigned as Richard III. Many historians believe that it was not Richard "Crouchback," but England's next ruler, Henry VII, who murdered the princes; yet no one knew what had become of York's bride, Anne Mowbray. Last week the London Museum announced...
...seconds, will not read a memo of more than two paragraphs. He is never unfair but he keeps most of his subalterns jumping. And he hates nepotism. When one of his employees married his only daughter, Wasserman gave the girl away and simultaneously demanded, and got, the groom's resignation...
...like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names of the bride and groom and the date: June...
Slaves & Skin Lotion. The origin of U.S. marshals goes back to medieval England, where the Old French word mareschal (groom) came to mean a sort of royal sheriff in charge of collaring witnesses for the King. In the U.S., when the 1789 Judiciary Act created the 13 original federal district courts, it also provided for 13 marshals to carry out court orders. Appointed by the President, those marshals were at first responsible for everything from census taking to courts-martial and taking custody of prize vessels. In the 1850s they chased fugitive slaves all over the North, much as they...