Word: naming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Manhattan...
...value?unlike the case of wine grapes?the bunches must be carefully picked by hand. Because of their vulnerability, Chavez picked the table-grape growers as his first target. In 1966, after a strike, he got his first contract when Schenley Industries capitulated because it had a nationally known name at stake. Later that year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored by the American Arbitration Association. Both Di Giorgio and Schenley have since sold their table-grape holdings, however, and Chavez's only contracts now are with wine producers...
...growing reasonably acclimated when, by and by, I ran into a girl whom I might as well call Betsy, because that's her name. I was growing acclimated and she was on the brink of complete collapse. "You can't build a legitimate movement on coercion and violence," she said, or words to that effect. Betsy, allowed as how she was attending classes regularly for the first time she could remember, now, during the strike, to show that people other than fascists cared about such things as freedom of movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with...
...part, it probably originates with the offhand elitism of many Harvard students--with their assumption that any institution bearing the name "Harvard" couldn't be quite up to par unless they and their peers participate...
After a while, Harvard Summer School attracted a third group of students, as Wilkinson puts it, "a group of people who didn't know what to do with themselves in the summer." Attracted no doubt, by the name, many flocked to Cambridge, where plunking down the admission fee was once tantamount to acceptance at the Harvard Summer School...