Word: letter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class Hatred." The outraged shouts were still resounding in the House chamber when another labor leader decided to get into the act. Trigger-tempered James Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers and a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., wrote a threatening letter to each of the 229 Representatives who had voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill. "We wish to assure you." wrote Carey, "that we shall do all in our power to prove to the working men and women in your district that you have cast your lot against them and they should therefore take appropriate...
...reaction to Carey's letter was-or should have been-entirely predictable. Replied Illinois' Republican Representative Edward Derwinski to Carey: "You and too many other autocratic union bosses are guilty of the un-American philosophy of class hatred." New York's Republican Representative Steven Derounian asked Carey for 10,000 copies of the letter "to distribute them to the residents of my district so they can see how you operate...
...Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother of a Lord, I have married an Honourable ... I shoot and fish well. I have a booming voice and am very tall. I was a very good soldier. I am pro-hanging. I hate Nasser. I love...
...outbreak of the first World War, when Bennett resolutely published under the German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades played the role of society paper for expatriates, subject to Bennett's iron whim (without giving a reason, he ordered a letter from an "old Philadelphia lady," inquiring how to convert centigrade readings to Fahrenheit,* reprinted daily for 18 years...
CORRECT ANSWERS to questions in Publisher's Letter...