Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame his miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded hot words with Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and accepted historic contempt fines of $2,130,000 against his United Mine Workers union and himself, the same old thunderer who had led his coal miners from economic prostration in the Depression to a $24.25 daily...
...Congress has even lost much of its old control of the national purse, historically the basic and decisive power of Parliaments. In 1957's Battle of the Budget, Congress huffed and puffed about cutting, but when the din died away, the President's budget was only nicked and scratched...
Each of the genial old pros picked a genial younger man for the test of power in the gubernatorial primary. Chandler's early choice: his Lieutenant Governor, Harry Lee Waterfield, 48, tall, shy native of Tobacco (pop. 50) and publisher of the Hickman County Gazette. In the state capital at Frankfort, Waterfield had learned fast from a master teacher, joined Chandler in ownership of the new Indian Hills subdivision, to which their highway department conveniently ran a state road. Aside from fighting down the scandals, Waterfield's toughest campaign job is to shake loose from the increasingly unpopular...
...Gaudy old Galveston (pop. 75,000) has been a wide-open sin city and the gaudy shame of Texas since the days when Pirate Jean Lafitte made it his island playground. Prostitution flourishes in the houses of Post Office Street, one of the last unabashed red-light districts in the nation. After-hours gin mills and gambling joints thrive in defiance of Texas laws, under the tacit protection of kickback-hungry city officials. From time to time, ambitious reformers have made feeble efforts to clean up Galveston, but the town has always quickly returned to its wicked ways, partly because...
Last week Galveston went to the polls, cast its vote in favor of the bad old days. In again as mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran a poor third in the four-way race, was rebuffed but undaunted. Said he: "I am going to sit on the sidelines and watch the people suffer for their mistake. May God have mercy on Galveston...