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...other cadet remained overnight in the infirmary, where Faulkner, still unable to hold down even a few crackers, was fed intravenously. She remained in the infirmary until Friday. By then Citadel spokesman Colonel Terry Leedom was announcing that for Faulkner, trying to make up for missing Hell Week would be like "entering the Indianapolis 500 on the 25th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL WEEK AND BACK | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...slow the expansion of small companies, which generate lots of jobs but because of their size must borrow from banks at more than the prime rate. No sooner had the Fed moved last week than many banks boosted their primes from 7.75% to 8.5%. That was harsh news to Leedom Kettell, who runs a printing company in Syracuse, New York, with 10 employees. Kettell had been shopping for a new $40,000-to-$50,000 printing machine for his growing business."But now, with the higher rates, I'm doing all I can to avoid buying," he says. "Postpone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenspan's Rates of Wrath | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...workers, interference in union activities, overt racial discrimination, and wiretapping. It has been found guilty of repeated labor-law violations and fined almost $1.5 million in the last 15 years. While Stevens is not a household word (yet), it is infamous to people in the industrial relations field. Boyd Leedom, former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), said: "J.P. Stevens is so out of tune with a humane, civilized approach to industrial relations that it should shock even those least sensitive to honor, justice and decent treatment." Because of its barbaric practices, NLRB officials have labeled Stevens...

Author: By Timothy G. Massad, | Title: Battling the Modern Sweatshops | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...once-hated Taft-Hartley Act gives them a right to complain to the Government against unfair pushing around by their own union bosses as well as their employers. In a speech to a gathering of labor lawyers last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chairman Boyd Leedom reported that, of the unfair-labor-practice cases handled by NLRB during the past year, individual workers filed 37% of the 3,522 charges against management, and a remarkable 46% of the 1,743 charges against unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two-Edged Act | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Married. Edna Wallace Leedom, 31, actress (Lovely Lady), onetime salesgirl and choir singer, of Manhattan; to Frank Doelger, 42, an heir to the $8,000,000 fortune of Brewer Peter Doelger; secretly, a month ago; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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