Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Democrat with a rough-and-ready tongue and no apologies for grabbing all he can for the workingman. Nixon reached deep into the labor movement to pluck out Brennan, president of the New York City and New York State Building and Construction Trades Councils. He is the first rank-and-file union member appointed to the post since President Eisenhower chose Martin Durkin, a plumber. But Brennan speaks the President's language on many issues, especially patriotism and the Viet Nam War. His appointment is a sign that the President is serious about keeping a portion...
...local power, to be sure, but he lacks a national constituency and-some would say-anything approaching national vision. Though he is respected by George Meany, he is not a member of the AFL-CIO executive committee. He speaks for a well-paid labor elite, not for the industrial rank and file...
Cleary is confident about tonight's game although B.U. will be playing on home ice. "B.U. has a big rank, and that should be to our advantage because we're a skating team," he said
Gradually Miller is making his point that the average miner is the chief victim of U.M.W. complacency and corruption. He flails Boyle and the staff of U.M.W. headquarters in Washington for fancy living and disregard of the rank and file. "The U.M.W. hierarchy owns 16 Cadillacs," he complains, "and we're gonna auction 'em off." If elected, Miller promises to cut the union president's salary from $50,000 a year to $35,000. "I'd like to go out to the coal fields and say to some miner: 'Here, old timer, here...
...condemned the protracted battle as a "national shame." Distillers' latest offer to establish an $8,000,000 trust fund for all victims would, the paper claimed, "probably be insufficient to ward off simple destitution" for the most severely deformed; the paper argued that an inadequate compensation settlement "would rank as one of the worst single failures of the English legal system...