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Perhaps the owners have more mercenary motives. Like going where the money is. As one of half a dozen owners with a fortune in excess of a billion dollars, Jack Kent Cooke probably has enough money now. Cooke owns the N.F.L. champion Washington Redskins, but like many a Joe Lunchpail, he wants to move to the suburbs. Move the Redskins, that is, to a rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Build It, and They (Will) MIGHT Come | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...lunchpail team. We've got to work, and if we don't work, if we try to get too pretty, we're not going to be very effective," said Tomassoni...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: There's No Doubt About It | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...proclaimed reformed racist and unquestionably a political opportunist, Finch had managed to put together a coalition of small farmers and poor laborers, both black and white. He appealed to poor folks with vague platitudes about working together, hand in hand, for the betterment of all. His symbols were the lunchpail and bulldozer. But after two years in office, it became painfully obvious to many Finch supporters that despite the rhetoric, Finch mainly worried about the betterment of Finch. Mississippi newspapers revealed time and time again that Finch's number one priority as governor was to get his old buddies...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ole Miss Campus Politics | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...advocates of lunchpail politics, no more busin' and Georgian efficiency who had a picnic. And in the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary of 1976, the disadvantaged had somehow slipped past the minds of the electorate...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Let Bygones Be Bygones | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...silly. James Gollman's play, which has something to do with Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, is vintage 1932 costume jewelry, so bad it's...well, bad. Inevitably, copies of the script will find their way to the shelves of TRUC, where they should nestle comfortably between the lunchpail ties and the back numbers of Combat Kelly...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: The Lion in Winter | 2/19/1966 | See Source »

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