Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mincing no words about labor's bad condition-emblazoned on U.S. minds as a result of the McClellan committee disclosures of union crookedness-Jim Mitchell showed that he was determined, despite his desire to keep U.S. bureaucracy out of internal union affairs, to achieve a cleanup in labor through legislation by 1) laying down rules for democratic conduct of unions and 2) requiring periodic public reports on the financial doings of unions. The laws he described to the convention would prescribe...
...York City Council outlawed Jim Crow public housing...
...Think," said President Marcos Pérez Jiménez, "of a country convulsed in political battle; of different parties, each trying to get votes by speeches filled with threats and defamation mixed with promises and offers of wellbeing; of streets in cities and towns painted and papered to the saturation point with posters designed to incite; of the populace abandoned to discussion and mental struggles, to screaming and tumult." It made a horrifying picture, but Venezuela's dictator was able to reassure his own people last week that they, at any rate, were in no great danger...
...splashy newspaper advertisements, businessmen prudently lavished praise on Pérez Jiménez' substitute for free elections. The semiofficial press carried supplements as long as twelve pages crammed with nothing but the names of citizens expressing their "adhesion" to the government. The President ordered all businesses in booming Venezuela to pay out their compulsory Christmas bonuses ($60 million this year) before the election not after...
...stride sheds tacklers; he is a vicious blocker and a shrewd, swift safety man. On offense or defense, his specialty is hitting opponents with skill, purpose and power. Last year, when Tackle Bobby Lockett teamed up with End John Tracey to bring down Texas Christian's great Halfback Jim Swink, Crow came up to "secure" the tackle, as the football euphemism goes. He knocked both Swink and Tracey goggle-eyed, and Tackle Lockett was belted right out of the game. Says he: "I felt like Crow had pushed my neck clean through my shoulders...