Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruined by economic dislocation. Almost at a standstill are exports of quebracho bark and the tanning extract derived from it, and of the Chaco's famed, strange-sounding woods: algarrobo, lapacho, guayabo, guayacdn, caranday, ybird-pyita, ñandubay, aguai, tatané, palo santo, palo de rosa, palo de lanza. And the "white gold," cotton, has proved fool's gold...
Scripps-Howard's Ray Lamb reported that Local 16,975 of United Sea Food Workers Union (a Federal union) had rehired as its business agent blubber-mouthed, notorious Joseph ("Socks") Lanza. Known as Sea Food Papa, the Tsar of the Fulton Fish Market, and other names, Socks Lanza is no rose under any of them...
Released last February, Socks Lanza lost no time getting himself elected to his $75-a-week job with the union he has lived on since he founded it 21 years...
Last week Mr. Green, professing to have learned, from Reporter Lamb's story, of Sock's reemergence, dispatched a telegram to A. F. of L. executives in Manhattan instructing them to revoke the charter of Local 16,975 unless Socks Lanza was dropped forthwith from its payroll...
Promptly Local 16,975 refused, promptly lost its charter. Then Sea Food Papa made a unique gesture of renunciation, resigned (thus automatically restoring the union's charter). To his friends Socks Lanza said: "I'm being crucified...