Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge issued his injunction last October on complaint of 13 New York Teamsters who charged that Hoffa finagled the president's chair for himself by packing the Teamster convention with puppet delegates, hand-picked in violation of the union's constitution. Under the arrangement that Hoffa's lawyers worked out with the 13 rebels, these charges remain hanging. In a settlement without precedent in labor cases, Judge Letts, 82, kept jurisdiction over the case, ordered a three-man "board of monitors" set up to look over Jimmy's shoulder and report to the court on what...
...Canada's Liberal Party, out of power since its upset defeat by the Conservatives last June, met in Ottawa lastweek to pick a new leader. The delegates' choice: Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, former Secretary of State for External Affairs and winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in creating the United Nations Emergency Force for the Middle East...
...President does not provide the needed leadership and, at the same time, refuses to aid the Senate when it tries to pick up the nation's defense problems, then this nation's military problems will grow worse if not disastrous...
...Secretary, tight-lipped James Forrestal, whose health was broken by the job. Frame by frame are jowly Louis Johnson, whose ham-handed economy, reducing the forces on the insistence of Harry Truman, left the U.S. almost totally unprepared for Korea; austere George Marshall, who had to work mightily to pick up Johnson's pieces; able Robert Abercrombie Lovett, who found that even-handed patience was not nearly enough for the Pentagon; and blunt Charles Erwin Wilson, whose experience remains most meaningful of all to Neil McElroy...
Others feel just as strongly that an executive is better off in a company school, where he can learn more lessons immediately valuable to his firm. They insist that picking out a few men to go off to school while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses...