Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theodore Baldwin, a Negro janitor who had been custodian at union headquarters, the disgruntled 85 in Local 264 accused Irving and two other officers of diverting union funds to their own use, and of spending large amounts on political campaigns (presumably Irving...
Rebel Baldwin gathered his supporters downstairs on the porch, getting minute-by-minute reports from the packed meeting room. Just before Irving rose to read his financial report (it would have shown, Irving explained later, that the local's net worth was a handsome $204,000), Baldwin's boys rushed upstairs. In the stifling room, bedlam broke loose. Men seized chairs, smashed them over the heads of their opponents. Knives flashed. One member leaped to protect Irving, was deeply slashed for his pains. Before the police arrived, 25 men had been...
...hospital room in powder-blue pajamas, his arm strapped up in a sling. Snapped Mickey: "I set myself up four nights in a row as a clay pigeon. [Attorney General] Howser must have had a hell of a tip." He was sure it was not a local bookie ("Every bookie in this town is a very close personal friend of mine," said Mickey firmly), nor imported Eastern gunmen. "I call New York, Chicago and Cleveland regular," said Mickey. "I'm a well-informed man. And I didn't get no rumble of anything going on ... If [Frank] Costello...
Died. Van Amberg Bittner, 64, vice president of C.I.O and the United Steel-ivorkers; of a heart ailment; in Pittsburgh. One of C.I.O.'s ace organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O...
Closed Shop. In Denver, the management conscientiously posted "No Dogs Allowed" signs all around the new local dog track...