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...Plumber. The Justice Department has discovered that $25,000 of the money was gathered by Kenneth H. Dahlberg, the Republican finance chairman in the Midwest, who told the FBI he had collected the cash from G.O.P. contributors early in April. He converted it into a $25,000 cashier's check on April 10, and the next day gave the check to Maurice Stans, the former Commerce Secretary who is now Nixon's national finance chairman. Stans, who is expected to be called soon to testify before the grand jury investigating the case, has reportedly explained that he dropped...
...think Fish stepped out for a bite of lunch after the first two games," Stack said of his roommate. "He had Berry running in circles at the start but he played like a plumber...
...flew to Meany's headquarters in Washington to confer. Labor Secretary James Hodgson, the Administration's belated emissary, also stopped by to pay his respects. He was one of the few White House men who managed to get the last word in during a slanging match with onetime Journeyman Plumber Meany (see box, page 10). After being labeled a "janitor" by Meany, Hodgson allowed as how "even a janitor can sometimes show a plumber where the leak...
...plumber. I don't know how humble I am, but I always try to stress the importance of the plumbing business. You can put millions of people in a great city and get along without lawyers, but you couldn't put them in there without plumbers. So I must warn you never to underestimate the importance of a plumber. In fact, I know anyone who has ever got a bill from a plumber doesn't underestimate them...
WHEN he addressed the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Miami last June, George Meany spoke as a plumber who is no longer underestimated. For many years, his brand of unionism has been rather flippantly declared an anachronism?much too parochial and materialistic for a society with a strong streak of idealism. While other labor leaders graduated to a more sophisticated statesmanship, Meany stayed the same, still speaking in the gruff accents of his Bronx boyhood, still looking like the traditional portly boss with heavy lids drooping threateningly over steel-gray eyes. His ever-present cigar only served to complete the unflattering...