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Word: looses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loos and the Benevolent men were upset over the Transit Authority's fact-finding committee, a panel which recently decided that all subway operators belong in the same union. This, reasoned Loos, sold out Benevolent to Mike Quill and the bigger, well-primed Transit Workers.

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Professional labor leaders--in the middle of an Atlantic City convention--wiped their foreheads and returned to the bar. New York politicos mumbled a sigh and turned to their work. "Gee," said Theodore Loos in his subway cab to a lingering reporter, "wouldn't it have been a dandy if...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

A man in the striped denim uniform of a subway trainman appeared in the Mayor's office of the City of New York early last Tuesday morning, before the regular business hours. Theodore Loos, president of the Motorman's Benevolent Association, announced that the men on the IND were going...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

It has been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Loos went to work that day, and was available to the press only at a ten-minute break in the afternoon. He spent the night playing chess with a World-Telegram reporter (he learned to play by mail) and by morning decided to call the whole thing off.

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

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