Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation may not be so bleak as it seems. The small crowds and the languid receptions, say his strategists, are in part the result of a national mood of political disenchantment following the assassination of Robert Kennedy. They may also be the result of the summer doldrums. "Wait until Labor Day," advises one Humphrey backer, with perhaps more than a little wishful thinking. "When the people know for sure that the alternative is Richard Nixon, Humphrey is going to look mighty good to them...
...Labor Day, three days after the Democratic Convention has dissolved, thousands of delegates, newsmen, candidates and aides converge on Chicago's International Amphitheater. Outside, 100,000 demonstrators chant, "We want peace! We want peace...
...Illinois, he does not have the horsepower needed to pull enough downstate Republicans to offset the Democratic stronghold of Cook County. A tendency to vote against incumbents could reverse the trend, however, and give the state to Nixon. Ohio's big cities are heavily blue-collar, and though labor's votes are growing less predictable, they should give the edge to the Democrats. As in Illinois, many G.O.P. officials in Ohio prefer Rockefeller as a man who could cut sharply into the Democratic hold on the cities. THE SOUTH: Nixon, Naturally With 145 electoral votes at stake, Nixon...
...super-rich may have unloaded our marble mansions on churches, embassies, labor unions and institutions of learning that don't have to pay the taxes or cope with the servant shortage, but we still have plenty of places to lay our heads. Real estate is an excellent long-term investment, and one also likes to travel without having to stay at hotels, where one doesn't have one's own things. So we have houses all over...
...strikes go, it was a midget involving a mere 1,250 workers. In terms of damage, it could turn out to be mammoth. With the St. Lawrence Seaway closed by a labor dispute for the first time in its nine-year life, growing economic dislocations last week rippled across eight U.S. states and much of Canada...