Word: quilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to bust the strike and break the men who tried it, you can stick with the job and get protected by Mike Quill's union. And the motormen and conductors who want their own union and don't like Quill's way of moving can just keep walking with their Union, because the law says they have no right to walk out on the city...
Loos and the Benevolent men were upset over the Transit Authority's fact-finding committee, a panel which recently decided that all subway operators belong in the same union. This, reasoned Loos, sold out Benevolent to Mike Quill and the bigger, well-primed Transit Workers...
...other side of town, Mike Quill, grown obese on a well-fed gluttony for power, chuckled in his beer. Amateur hour was over...
Theodore Loos and a number of the Benevolent men are in jail this morning, and Mike Quill in hurried conference with grim lieutenants. It's like the old days, sort of novel and romantic--and a source of grudging pride...
...office he has replaced quill pens with IBM machines, and instead of being three years behind in its work, it is now only a month behind. He changed the rules so that fishermen can now get a license by producing only an identity card instead of a good-conduct certificate, a notarized proof of signature and a police reference showing no penal record. Between helicopter swoops on unsuspecting offices all over Italy, Medici proclaimed his goal: "Democracy will become a reality only when any citizen can write to any state functionary with the certainty of receiving a clear, quick, satisfactory...