Word: hillman
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DIED. Jacob S. Potofsky, 84, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1946-72); in New York City. At 15, the Ukrainian-born Potofsky joined fellow pantsmakers in a strike that led to the founding of the Amalgamated by Sidney Hillman. As Hillman's protege, he helped to introduce such benefits as union banks, cooperative housing and health centers. Elected president upon Hillman's death, Potofsky became known as a masterful negotiator and a political activist...
Carter's willingness to go his "extra mile," combined with the apparent discovery of new negotiating points acceptable to the Israelis, won him a measure of good will among many American Jews, who had been embittered by his pressure on Israel to make concessions to Egypt. Said Clifton Hillman, president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Boston: "You've got to give Carter credit for trying." But Jewish leaders cautioned their followers not to expect too much. Said Myron Brodie, executive director of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation: "A good marriage isn't the result...
...lisande. But as opera, the music is flawed: the vocal lines are so dense and undramatic that the voices of the mostly young cast get lost. The production is often riveting. In one of the most bizarre scenes, Ferdinand, superbly sung and acted by British Tenor David Hillman, passionately kisses his strangled sister, then rips the red satin lining from her coffin and rushes from the stage...
...World figures; in Santa Cruz, Calif. After a period as a young expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, Josephson concentrated on famous Frenchmen (Rousseau and Zola). But a roving intellect led him home to do literary portraits of Americans (Thomas Edison, Al Smith and Sidney Hillman) as well as a study of 19th century capitalists whose rapacious ways he exploited in his most celebrated book, The Robber Barons...
...Chris Hillman--Paradise Club...