Word: loyalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with loans from Teamster pension funds...
...National Committee, a post he retained until his retirement from politics last year. As national chairman from 1965 to 1969, he re-established the party's ties to young people, blacks and intellectuals and provided the base for Richard Nixon's presidential victory in 1968. A party loyalist with a preference for working behind the scenes, Bliss once said: "If I wanted to make policy, I should go out and run for office and make speeches. I'd rather build up our candidates, not Ray Bliss...
Layman argues that "Hellman's influence" chiefly led Hammett into liberal, antifascist crusades in the late 1930s. This may explain his initiation but not the zealousness that followed. In 1937, like many writers at the time, he became a champion of the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War. By 1940 he had moved far to the left and was working to get the Communist Party slate on state ballots in time for the upcoming election. His conversion was swift and complete. Writes Layman: "It seems likely from the responsibilities Hammett was given for Communist activities that he joined...
...Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though a stranger to the fine points of the tax code, Mayor Daley's man characteristically acquiesced to the wishes of his party...
...Boyne close to 400 years ago; quickly they peopled the nation with subjects loyal to the crown. And the Irish have been fighting since. They've had their victories, of course. The biggest came in 1920 when they won the 26 counties of the south of Ireland. But the loyalist Protestant-dominated North (they still call themselves "Orangemen" in tribute to William of Orange, victor at the Battle of the Boyne) voted to ally with the U.K. It should be remembered that the white majority in the American South voted to have nothing to do with the rest...