Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picket Courtship. Eugenia operated an embroidery machine in a Bronx dress factory, and George's only real union activity at the time was to walk with her on picket lines when her union, I.L.G.W.U. Local 6, was on strike. (As a working plumber, Meany never went on strike.) In 1919 George and Eugenia were married. Shortly thereafter, perhaps because of Eugenia's influence, he began to take an active part in Plumbers Local 463. In 1920, with the help of some other young dissidents, he was elected to the local board, and in 1922, at 28, he became...
While he was state president of the A.F.L., Meany got his teeth into politics. In the 1937 mayoralty election he broke Tammany Hall's political influence on the local A.F.L. unions, swung them over to his good friend Fiorello La Guardia. But Meany was not swept along with the American Labor Party tide that included many New York labor leaders in a sticky association with the Communists. In 1938, Meany denounced the A.L.P. leaders as "political self-seekers, left-wingers, political renegades and non-laboring laborites...
Early in his career George Meany had recognized the Communists and Fascists for what they were. While he was still the Plumbers' business agent, he had reprimanded and fined a Communist agitator in his union local. In 1939, a few days after war broke out in Europe, Meany took a firm stand against totalitarians of the right or left in a speech before the New York state American Legion convention. "Labor has more reason to be vigilant in defense of democracy," he said, "than has any other group or class. Organizations of working men and women formed...
Vacationing in Pinehurst, N.C., Britain's roving Lady Astor was entertained at the local country club by the city's foremost winter residents, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine. Ordinarily one of America's most caustic critics, Virginia-born Nancy Astor was on her best behavior, kept her temper during her frequent rounds of golf (handicap: 20), purred just like any sweet old (65) lady. Sample: "I've never known so many nice people as you've got here...
...family formation reflects the Depression's low birth rate, predicted that the new-family-formation rate will soon pick up and keep the demand for new housing at upwards 1,000,000 yearly for the next five years. Said Smith: "I would expect to find some local problems, some temporary gluts and vacancies . . . But I don't believe, and I can't find any other construction economist who believes, that we are facing a boom-and-bust situation in housing so long as the rest of the economy remains prosperous-as it apparently will remain...