Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curran held the wheel of the new N.M.U., but the Communists set the course. Far from beefing about it, Joe made noises like a Commie himself. The union prospered, took in 90,000 members. Joe Curran became a national figure who boasted that his union was indifferent to the race, color or political creed of its members...
...vice president and director of the strike, made no comment on a U.A.W. handout which claimed complete victory. But obviously springy, redheaded Reuther could claim some kind of personal triumph. He would go to the U.A.W. convention at Atlantic City this weekend with a substantial campaign argument in his race for the presidency of U.A.W. against President R. J. Thomas...
With some $350,000 a year, the Council finances commissions and publications on such matters as evangelism, race relations, radio, labor relations, "international justice & good will," etc. The Council itself spends no money on relief or missions, but it underwrites the budgets of several interdenominational religious agencies which do. Among them: Commission on Aliens & Prisoners of War, Committee on the Conscientious Objector, Committee on Overseas Relief & Reconstruction. Member groups are assessed not according to size but to income. Thus the Protestant Episcopal Church chips in a good deal more per person than the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...
Favorite. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Thelma Neiditch got her divorce. Grounds: Husband John said he couldn't support both her and his race horse, was more interested in the horse...
...Knight had not won a race since 1944, and Trainer Charlie Leavitt almost scratched him-but Owner Ethel Hill insisted that he run. He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood scenario writer, went a gold cup, a $101,220 purse, and a cool handshake from her boss, Louis B. Mayer, whose entry (Be Faithful) finished seventh...