Word: pension
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...C.I.O. When he went to Washington, labor's political and moral standing was jeopardized by the existence of eleven Communist-controlled unions within the C.I.O. Goldberg directed the meticulous, scrupulously legal C.I.O. trials that ended with the banishment of all eleven. In 1949 he devised the pension and insurance plans for the Steelworkers that were finally accepted by industry in a labor breakthrough that was followed up by the U.A.W. and other mass-production unions. "This really transformed American life." Goldberg says unabashedly. "In all this, I take great personal satisfaction...
...October 1959, when the Mirror underwent a thorough revamping and made a brassy new pitch to British youth, Chairman Cecil Harmsworth King decided to pension Jane off. "You can't go on being a bright young thing forever," said King, although Jane had made a good start at doing just that. First unveiled-or rather, undraped-on the Mirror's pages in December 1932, at the age of 21, she vanished 27 years later at the same age. "Let's quietly disappear and start again together," said Jane's perennial fiance, Georgie, in the farewell strip...
...dugout cutup, Lary was nicknamed "Taters" by Tiger teammates because he once wrote "taters" on a dining-car order blank, is a guitar-strumming hillbilly singer on an Alabama radio station in the off season. But Lary is not an ambitionless rube. He hopes to quit with his pension after three more years to develop a 40-acre Alabama water recreation area called Frank Lary Lake. ''Ten years in baseball would be enough." he says. "I should spend more time with my family. I'm not home enough to raise my kids...
...Danny Kaye has generously contributed his services for this extraordinary musical adventure," announced Berkshire Festival advertisements for the annual Boston Symphony Orchestra Pension Fund Concert. "The orchestra," it continued, "simply cannot accept any responsibility." When the old (48) Mitty-slicker appeared at Tanglewood (following a warmup children's concert with the Boston Pops back on the Charles the day before), he shook hands with his concertmaster and then with most of the rest of the 104 pieces, broke up the audience by portraying a maestro with a psychosomatic itch, employing a flyswatter baton for Flight of the Bumble...
...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker took the final steps last week to oust the Bank of Canada's Governor James E. Coyne. After a month-long fight during which tight-money Banker Coyne criticized government fiscal policies and the government charged Coyne with voting himself an overly big pension, the Commons approved a 46-word bill firing Coyne. From the sidelines. Banker Coyne accused Diefenbaker of being an "evil genius" who, with "unbridled malice and vindictiveness." had set out to destroy him in order to install a yes man at the bank and proceed on a ruinous program...