Word: pressman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lee Pressman, 63, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel from 1936 until 1948, when his far-left politics finally cost him his job and career; of cancer; in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Pressman never made any bones about his Communist leanings, often supporting the Moscow line. Yet as a union lawyer he was tops; he played a major role in negotiating the original C.I.O. contracts with such industrial giants as U.S. Steel and General Motors, and ably fought labor cases before the Supreme Court...
...date music and songs by Frangipane & Dante. I would also have to mention the name of every single player in the cast, all of whom, major and minor, are unfailingly entertaining both aurally and visually. I will at least cite here the stylish skill of Lawrence Pressman in the play's fattest role, that of the witty and skeptical lord Berowne...
...police department and storefront command posts in the Roxbury ghetto. In Washington to offset the impression given by smoke-shrouded aerial photos that the capital was an inferno, WTOP televised a wall-size map showing that the fires were confined to a relatively small area. When Baltimore Comptroller Hyman Pressman made a heated speech demanding that the looting be stopped "by gunfire" if necessary, all the TV stations elected to junk the film...
Sickles said in his concession speech that he could not as a Democrat support Agnew or Pressman, but he withheld endorsement of Mahoney -- at least temporarily...
Still, Agnew is bucking a 3-1 Democratic registration majority, and he could get his most troublesome opposition from foes of Mahoney. Pressman -- a liberal and Baltimore's fiscal watchdog -- could take several thousand Agnew votes in the city. And if a Sickles write-in campaign gets underway (there is a lot of talk about it), Sickles could easily push enough votes away from Agnew put Mahoney in the governor's chance...