Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That it hardly was, that it all bleakly and unbeguilingly wasn't for "the likes" of him-poor decent Stamfordham- to rap out queries about the owner of the to him unknown and unsuggestive name that had, in these days, been thrust on him with such a wealth of commendatory gesture, was precisely what now, as he took, with his prepared list of New Year colifichets and whatever, his way to the great gaudy palace, fairly flicked his cheek with the sense of his having never before so let himself in, as he ruefully phrased it, without letting anything...
...influential heyday, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, now finished with a three-month stretch for contempt of court and adjudged psychologically incompetent to stand trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan...
With his canny knack for beating the rap, Teamster Topdog James Riddle Hoffa has survived 1) an A.F.L-C.I.O. expulsion order, 2) federal investigations of his income tax returns, 3) a pair of Justice Department prosecutions for wiretapping and bribery, and 4) the Landrum-Griffin labor law, which was written largely to unscrew Hoffa's hammerlock on most of the U.S. transportation industry. Just about the last hope of halting Hoffa is the three-man Teamster Board of Monitors, set up three years ago by a Federal court to keep the 1,650,000-member union at least reasonably clean...
...public-be-damned arrogance, responsible labor leaders conspicuously shunned his cause, and the 52,000 idled Pennsy workers from other unions chafed to get back to work. Last week Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell abandoned his seven-year stand of strict impartiality in labor disputes to rap Mike Quill: "Reasonable people sitting down at the bargaining table can settle this dispute very quickly," said he. "If Mike wants to be reasonable-and the company, I think, is reasonable in this area-he can settle...
Some papers simply thought that Jack Kennedy was getting a bum religious rap. Wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Senator Kennedy seems to us to have demonstrated admirable independence on this issue, since he has voted at least twice contrary to what we believe to be the position of his church. He voted against the use of public funds for parochial schools and against sending an ambassador from the U.S. to the Vatican." Some papers seemed to think that the whole religion issue was a Republican plot. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Regardless of how it has been raised, religion...