Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...force them to leave, but it doesn't make any sense to stay," said Mayor Bob Pinkerton Jr., adding that water and electricity would be turned off yesterday afternoon...
Sooner or later everybody hears about Homestead, a dwindling Pennsylvania mill town of 5,092 souls just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. It was the site of historic labor-management strife in 1892, when striking workers lost a bloody (ten dead) battle with armed, union-busting Pinkerton agents hired by the Carnegie Steel Co. More recently, after U.S. Steel (now the USX Corp.) closed a plant that had provided about 15,000 jobs, the town commanded attention as a victim of the economic tides that have sunk smokestack industries. Last week Homestead blurted into national attention yet again -- this...
...Houses in groups or not at all is an unwarranted display of paternalism on the part of University Hall, ridiculous in its conception and a nuisance in its effect. The history of Harvard social life during the five years of the House plan gives no excuse for such Pinkerton tactics, while the regulation itself points the finger of suspicion at every young lady who has ever been entertained unchaperoned within Harvard walls...
...most locals welcome the invasion, which should provide a $10 million boost to the battered economy. "The students are a huge shot in the arm," says Mayor Bob Pinkerton. "We're trying to help them, not hang them." Agrees Tourist Bureau Publicist Dick Bushnell: "Maybe Lauderdale doesn't need...
...hordes mellowed out on the beer and sun, Hilton Hotel Manager Mark Hamner declared, "We're what Lauderdale was ten years ago." But others worried about how much more carnival the isle could stand. Pointed out Mayor Pinkerton: "We're not hostile to anyone...