Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel Rosenzweig, president of the C.I.O. United Culinary, Bar and Grill Employees, Local 923, collected $477,401 from 350 luncheonette operators, gave the 1,200 workers only 26% for welfare, kept 35% for expenses-mostly his own pay. "Good administrators," testified Rosenzweig blandly, "deserve good...
...trustee of an A.F.L. retail liquor clerks' local drew $100 from the welfare fund every week or so for lunches, cigars and liquor...
...fault with 62, nearly half, and suggested state supervision for all. C.I.O. President Walter Reuther acted fast. "The C.I.O. cannot and will not tolerate crooks," said he. "The union official who preys upon . . . funds . . . has no place in the labor movement, and should be sent to jail." Six C.I.O. local leaders-including "Good Administrator" Rosenzweig-were suspended and physically barred from their offices. The A.F.L., for its part, called for annual audits of all A.F.L. union finances, including the welfare funds...
...only for the state legislature, and even there, with the help of small parties, the Christian Democrats will be able to keep control. The vote was indeed a rebuff to 78-year-old Konrad Adenauer, but it was not a threat to his continuance in office. No matter how local elections go, his term runs until 1957, and-his two-thirds majority in the national Bundestag is the largest in Western Europe...
...Italy's Reds, September is festa month, a time for rousing party parties, where fun is mixed with the serious business of renovating Communist dogma and replenishing Communist coffers. Piazzas and parks throughout Italy echoed last week with the sounds of lively local Communist festas. The biggest blowout of all, attended by the party's biggest Red wigs, was to be held in Florence's gracious old Cascine park. But Florence's stoutly anti-Communist police chief did not fall into the fun-loving spirit. Last week he abruptly withdrew the party's permit...