Word: laborer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enraged. "I do not know who has stirred up the people of Ohio to threaten me to vote for Haynsworth or face retaliation," he said. Declaring his independence from all outside pressures, Saxbe added: "I will not jump through a hoop for industrial fat cats or labor leaders," and in the end he voted no. So did Oregon's Mark Hatfield, who angrily complained that conservatives had threatened to oppose him in the next primary...
...stock Haynsworth bought before releasing a favorable decision. The decision did not affect the stock's price, and the judge's purchase was inadvertent, but it left an appearance of impropriety. Haynsworth also contradicted his own testimony on the vending machine company affair. Haynsworth was opposed by labor and civil rights groups, who contended that his decisions had been contrary to their interests, but it was the ethical charges that caused the Senate to rebel. "That was the crank that got the ideological car started." said a chagrined Justice Department official...
...president, Howard Coughlin, O.P.E.U. had been interested in trying to organize the dealers in Las Vegas for several years. Last summer the union's chief counsel, Cleveland Attorney Joseph Finley, was approached by a "highly reputable" friend, Lawyer Robert Duvin. Duvin introduced Nardi and Francis as legitimate labor organizers who could unionize the dealers for O.P.E.U. if they could get a charter. Supported by Duvin's high recommendation, Nardi and Francis were quickly approved and received their charter from O.P.E.U. Although their initial organizing attempts were resisted by some casino operators, the scheme seemed likely to succeed...
Dispassionate in tone, it prints terse bulletins about the condition of political prisoners, like the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, together with their labor-camp addresses. Top KGB investigators, prosecutors and judges who are involved in important political cases are identified by name for the record. The avowed purpose of the Chronicle is to secure civil rights for Soviet citizens within the letter and spirit of the constitution. Summaries of recent items...
...Leningrad last December, three intellectuals were tried and sentenced to hard labor for "producing, harboring and circulating works of an anti-Soviet nature." These included Milovan Djilas' The New Class and Barry Goldwater's Why Not Victory? and The Conscience of a Conservative...