Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Wallace a heavy vote in the 1964 Democratic primary. He turned on the electorate in low-income neighborhoods, where voting is not habitual, to produce solid crowds at the polls. And he succeeded in the face of several handicaps. Indiana is a basically conservative state. The Democratic organization, labor-union leadership and the state's two largest newspapers did their best to torpedo Kennedy...
...Labor did work hard, and so did the party leadership's subsequent choice. Red-haired John Joyce Gilligan, 47, a former Congressman and Cincinnati city councilman, whose brains, liberal views and Democratic loyalty prompted the campaign tag, "the real Democrat," campaigned assiduously, while Lausche-in his own words-sometimes "fiddled around...
...challenge Lausche this year, despite early polls hinting that he might be vincible. But while his proven ability to grab Republican votes discouraged the G.O.P., it enraged Lausche's fellow Democrats. As for Lausche, his acerbic disdain for party functions and factions, his baiting of the labor leaders who command much of the Democrats' mooted Ohio strength, and his conservative Senate record led Democratic State Chairman Morton Neipp to predict in November: "I feel that if labor works hard, goes all out, Lausche can be beaten...
...House dining hall conversations. The Overseers have not been publicly participating in the present dialogue on the University's role in the community, its role as a hotel administrator, its conscious or unconscious influence on American military campaigns, the way Harvard invests its billion dollars, and its labor practices...
...Black Experience. In this view of the Black Experience, the slave trade is seen as the beastly act of beastly White men--or, in Malcolm X's memorable phrase, "White Devils"--who without pity or remorse wrenched millions of Negro Africans from their ancestral homeland for enforced and dehumanizing labor in the Western Hemisphere...