Word: quilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrill note of opposition came when the Transport Workers' volatile Mike Quill, still burned up at the way the New York Democratic Party had blocked his candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., from the gubernatorial nomination, rose on the floor and claimed that the C.I.O. was a tail to the Democratic kite. He be moaned the fact that "we are tying ourselves tighter and tighter to the Democratic Party ... All across the country we find the blundering of the Democratic Party weighing us down." Quill called for "a third party, a political party, a labor party, a trade-union party...
...Quill, having made his noise and taken his public spanking, voted for Reuther's resolution praising the work of the C.I.O. Political Action Committee in its "traditional nonpartisan manner...
Defense Rests. In Covington, Ky., Prosecutor James E. Quill's case against Cafe Owner Joseph Martin for receiving stolen goods collapsed when Quill discovered that the police had accidentally sold at auction the stolen goods that Martin was accused of receiving...
...then passing from the scene like ghosts. The toiling secretary, scribbling like mad in a desperate shorthand, never dared to interrupt the one-man show, which ended only when the Emperor abruptly shot from the room, took an hour's nap. and ultimately returned with "an overfilled goose-quill" to inscribe a blotty "N" at the base of each transcribed letter...
...limerick's lady of Kent, according to Louisville Times Managing Editor Norman Isaacs, 46, is not very different from many a newsman. Writing in the current issue of Quill, monthly magazine of the professional journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Editor Isaacs charged that more and more newsmen are succumbing to the compromising blandishments of pressagents, promoters, politicians and others whose objective with newsmen is always the same: to influence what is printed. Asked Isaacs: "How can we claim integrity when newspapers employ men whose services are for sale to outsiders...