Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Boss of a big, independent St. Louis distribution union. Gibbons in 1949 sold out to the Teamsters, dipping into his union treasury-without informing the membership-to help buy off officers of the Teamster local who were discarded in the merger.
¶ During his 17 years as a labor leader in St. Louis, Gibbons called 250 strikes in an established pattern of violence. Testified St. Louis Police Captain Thomas L. Moran: "We did not find this violence in other unions-it was confined to the Gibbons locals."
The 23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into...
The time is 6:30 p.m., 88 years to the day after anti-Bonapartists raced through the streets of Paris proclaiming the end of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire and the birth of the Third French Republic. The scene: the Place de la Republique, in the heart of working...
Dispatching his personal barber, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, put down a kinky situation. Crisis : the hair on the new wax Mountbatten at London's famed Madame Tussaud's museum was far too curly. The barber slicked down...