Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions now put out more than 1,000 publications, ranging from slick magazines to mimeographed monthlies, which reach 20 million readers as fringe benefits bought with union dues. The better papers-the Machinist, the Hat Worker, Electrical Union World, the autoworkers' UAW Solidarity, the ladies' garment workers' Justice, the clothing workers' Advance-carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws...
Russell is the farthest thing in the world from the Johnston sort of wool-hat politician. A lawyer by profession, Russell amassed a fortune estimated at $40 million in banking, auto financing and other investments, served without pay for five years as president of the University of South Carolina...
...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...
...program began with the Alleluia, probably the best known motet produced in this century. It's sung almost too much, but Friday night, when the Glee Club and Choral Society started it, I thought I could listen to it a hundred times more. Let us hope hat in his retirement, Randall Thompson will write more music that sings and sounds as well as that little piece...
...cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance Writer Joe McCarthy, who claims to have edited this collection, did no such thing...