Word: hodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allegorical tendencies. He entered Stanford in 1920, but left after five years of intermittent attendance and no degree. In New York, he worked briefly for the American and was fired because he seemed incapable of recording facts without rhapsodizing or sermonizing. He then worked for a time as a hod carrier, returned to California and became a caretaker of a lodge in the Sierras. There he completed his first novel, Cup of Gold, which appeared...
...Newspaper Editor James Kilpatrick on the Poor People's March: "All the visible 'poor' at Resurrection City appear remarkably well-fed. Some are downright fat. Most are young, ablebodied. Every man jack of them could find a job in Washington-carrying a hod, if nothing else. But work? Take jobs? Earn a living? Not this gang...
...Volpe hasn't been the least bit hesitant about suggesting why he should be the Republicans' 1968 vice-presidential candidate. He proudly points out the size of his re-election plurality, the number of Italian-American voters in the Northeast, and that his rise in the world from a hod carrier to governor is a re-affirmation of good old Republican principles. It's not because he has any notable ideas or thoughts on public issues that John Volpe feels he ought to be the next V.P., but rather that he's entitled to the office because he's John...
Then came Drabowsky, who struck out Wes Parker, walked Junior Gilliam, and forced John Roseboro to foul out to retire the side. In the fourth and fifth innings, Drabowsky struck out the side, thus tying a 47-year old record of Cincinnati's Hod Eller, who struck out six straight batters in the 1919 World Series against the Chicago White...
Only three of the ten largest unions impose compulsory retirement on their officials. And labor leaders are a durable lot: President Joseph Moreschi of the Hod Carriers is 80, domineering David Dubinsky of the Ladies' Garment Workers 73, Jacob Potofsky of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers 70, and A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...