Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neill: "Fear has spread over Ohio. There is use of power to instill fear. I deplore the thought that Ohio citizens should be afraid." Roared Bricker: "If ever there was a clearcut call for non-partisan action, it was for protection of the union rank and file against the abuses of labor racketeers, the embezzlers, the professional goons, the Hoffas and the Becks." So saying, O'Neill and Bricker plumped unequivocally for a hotly debated Ohio right-to-work bill on next month's ballot. Explained a G.O.P. strategist: "We're taking a chance on it helping...
...They have produced floods of new registrations; most of it is probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...
...polls convinced Chamberlain that the majority of Sixth District voters was generally in agreement with Eisenhower Administration policy-and he voted that way. Among the most startling trends was one that gives Chamberlain high hopes that the Sixth District's rank-and-file union members will not necessarily blame him for their economic troubles. Seventy-seven percent of the hourly wage earners answering a Chamberlain poll last March said they believed both labor and management should renew then-existing contracts "to avoid possible labor strife...
...farmers. To replace LeCompte, the Republicans nominated personable John H. Kyi, 39, hard-driving farmer, newscaster and co-owner of a men's clothing store in the Davis County seat of Bloomfield (pop. 2,600). Kyi has worked hard on the labor issue, advocating a program to free rank-and-file workers from boss control (Iowa already has a right-to-work law). The big switch in the district is that Kyi may cut into the Democrats' traditional city vote, Democrat Carter into the Republicans' rural vote, with the result a tossup...
...Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon rank with earlier Stevens' successes-Four Poster, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...