Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When you talk politics in Alaska, you talk Teamsters," Faulkner said. The Teamsters membership in Alaska constitutes 10 per cent of the registered voting population in the state. Controlling the material supply line to the construction sites, and a large portion of the flow of consumer goods to Alaskan residents, the Teamsters occupy a bottleneck that affords them substantial political clout. "What they say, goes," Faulkner added...
...Ring Lardner Jr. and Director Edward Dmytryk - declined, sometimes indignantly, sometimes bemusedly, to answer the persistent questions of the committee chairman concerning their alleged Communist Party affiliations. "I could answer your question," Ring Lardner told the committee, "but I'd hate myself in the morning." Since Communist Party membership was not illegal, the ten argued - with good reason - that such inquiries were in flagrant breach of the First Amendment. They stood, accordingly, on their rights, until it became clear that they did not have many. Trumbo, shrewd and charming, is the cornerstone of the film. When asked whether...
...Saints', a racially mixed inner-city parish, as Means for the first time celebrated Communion, and Rector John Eastwood pleaded for the flock to be charitable. His concern stemmed from vocal opposition to his new priest, and the fact that ten people out of a parish membership of 150 have resigned in protest. Some of Means' opponents are alienated by her. aggressive, mildly profane style. (She will, for example, say "Oh Jesus" on occasion.) Other parishioners disapprove of ordaining women on principle. But many members are delighted. Said Sarah Mallory, 65: "Now I've seen...
...heating. After graduating from high school in Detroit, he went to work at Chrysler's De Soto plant and, faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where he tried to boost membership by serving beer; at 30, he was an international representative; by 34, he had caught the eye of Reuther, who took him on as an administrative assistant...
Died. Erroll Garner, 53, jazz pianist and composer (Misty); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Garner taught himself to play the piano when he was a child, but he never learned to read or write music. The musicians' union in his native Pittsburgh refused him membership in the 1940s because of this illiteracy, so Garner journeyed to New York City's famed 52nd Street to play in its jazz clubs. He eventually filled concert halls round the world and sold record albums by the millions...