Word: randolph
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Further backing has been received from organized labor, long hesitant about disarmament activity. A. Phillip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a vice-President of the AFL-CIO, has given his endorsement, along with Emil Mazey, Secretary-Treasurer of the Confederation...
...blood leadership. Before Clay, the Speaker generally acted as a feeble referee over an undisciplined House mob. A stern taskmaster, Clay brought order and respectability to the House. Members were forbidden to put their feet on their desks, and the hound dog of Virginia's eccentric John Randolph was banished from the chamber on orders of the Speaker. Clay refused to be a mere presiding officer, asserted his rights to appear on the floor as an eloquent member. With the backing of Secretary of State James Monroe, Speaker Clay forced a reluctant President Madison to sign a declaration...
Somehow, the opera got started on time. But in Act II, just when Baritone Otto Edelmann seemed to be booming along comfortably in the role of Wotan, his voice began to fail. Edelmann withdrew at the end of Act II. He was replaced by Baritone Randolph Symonette, who lasted on stage for only four minutes. "It seemed to me like four hours," said shaken Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, later...
...economic grounds, the disappearance of the Examiner and the Mirror could be called death from natural causes. Although the Examiner was one of the shinier links in the dwindling Hearst newspaper chain, it fought a losing battle for survival against the Times. Founded in 1903. when the late William Randolph Hearst still had millions to squander, the Examiner was a well-written, well-edited, brightly made-up paper. Its political reporting was probably the most balanced in California. During the 1940s, the Examiner was ahead of the Times in daily circulation. But the older, more conservative Times fattened...
Small Complaint. The same obstacles confront both surviving Los Angeles papers. But of the two. Hearst is likely to run into more trouble. Although its afternoon paper has been pointedly renamed the Herald-Examiner, this cannot conceal the fact that William Randolph Hearst's cost-conscious successors have expediently submerged their superior Los Angeles possession, the Examiner, into their inferior product. Moreover, as an afternoon paper the Herald-Examiner is in direct competition with the suburban dailies, most of which are published in the afternoon. And it faces grave distribution problems that a morning paper, whose trucks roll...