Word: quill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranks, frequently in key positions. But few citizens pay much attention. Last week they had good reason to look, and look again. In New York City 3,500 busmen struck, leaving 1,300 busses stalled, inconveniencing almost a million New Yorkers. The strike was engineered by Michael J. Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union...
...Whether Mr. Quill has it in back of his head to give it a tryout here - whether this bus strike is a sort of rehearsal for a general bus, subway, El and taxi strike to come - we don't know...
...Mike Quill, who carries a briar stick and limps around with a bullet in his hip, which he got in the Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested in union politics and helped start T. W. U. In 1937 he got a closed-shop contract for his new, pugnacious union. In 1939, as candidate for re-election to the New York City Council, he took the Communist line, refused to go along with the American Labor Party...
...desk. Above the high scarlet collar surmounting golden epaulets, the Commandant's face was stern. Through the open window came the shouts and murmurs of the camp-the Marines' first headquarters camp in Washington. He set down the date-"Sept. 22, 1800." Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps you cannot...
These were the shouts of resentment and dissent. There were other voices in a different key. Salaried C. I. O. officials, a few disruptive leftists like the Transport Workers' Mike Quill in Manhattan, Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union, pledged continued loyalty to John Lewis. Packinghouse workers in Illinois, who had stood in sullen silence weeks ago while Villkie pleaded with them, heard Lewis, voted to go with him. Their action might upset the Chicago Democratic plurality, put Illinois safely in the Willkie camp. Many in the rank & file of the mineworkers in Illinois and Pennsylvania loyally...