Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent garbage-collecting contractors told how Outsider Squillante used contacts in a Teamster union local to grab control of the Greater New York Carting Association. Bringing the cartmen into line, even to the point where owner-drivers had to join the union, Squillante's hold became such that he could, at a whim, leave thousands of businessmen and householders with garbage piling up day by day on the sidewalks...
...There will be no presentation parties after 1958," said the palace bulletin that put the signature on their death warrant. "The Queen proposes to hold additional garden parties in order that larger numbers may be invited to Buckingham Palace." "A deb," said Palace Press Secretary Richard Colville, by way of fuller explanation, "can no longer apply to meet the Queen. There is no one she can apply to. In fact, there will be no debs. They are finished...
...Klerk, 54. Strydom appointed De Klerk, a onetime paid party official who has never been elected to Parliament, his Minister of Labor. Eager to curry more votes among the ardent white-supremacist farmers of the platteland, Minister de Klerk promptly ordered South Africa's garment industry to hold in reserve "for whites only" some 30,000 to 40,000 garment jobs, ranging in categories from cutter to supervisor...
...high-fidelity tape recorder, and a small bar (four glasses, two bottles). A telephone system will permit the President to talk to his aide up front without the chauffeur's listening in, or (by shortwave radio) to the presidential palace and army headquarters. A weapons compartment will hold two submachine guns...
...moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood up and once again began conducting from his feet. He does not use a baton, and when a musician once complained about it, Klemperer shouted, "I cannot hold a baton. Nor could you if you had had a brain tumor...