Word: rebuff
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Even in the face of the rebuff, Reuther held his tongue. But that only left the convention's 900 delegates wondering how long it would be before Reuther would launch a frontal assault on Meany that might well end up by ending the whole A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. This possibility was plainly in the mind of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg when he addressed the convention. Assuring the convention that there were really no insoluble conflicts within the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg declared: "Our national policies at home, to cope with the problems we face abroad, demand unity-unity on the part...
...proposed that Atlas Corp. sell him its controlling interest in the airline. The CAB has never made any secret of its distaste for Hughes, and to invite him back into the airline business would be humiliating indeed. But since no one else seemed prepared to bail Northeast out, to rebuff Hughes would very likely mean that Northeast would become the second major U.S. airline (the first: Capital) to disappear within a year...
...gallows. Hardly any of the candidates mentioned it, but everyone recalled the execution of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and two members of his government by General Gursel's military junta. Despite occasional arrests in the campaign weeks, the voting itself was calm and clean. Result: a sharp rebuff to the junta and the 17-month-old revolution...
...Suiter. Undeterred by this rebuff, Hughes set about chivying President Charles Tillinghast, whom the trustees had put in to run TWA. On one occasion Hughes threatened to bring suit against the airline for ignoring his wishes. Last week, instead. TWA's management filed suit against Hughes. Hughes Tool Co. and Raymond Holliday for alleged violation of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. TWA's avowed hope: to win a court order obliging Hughes to get rid of all stock in TWA and to cease trying to exercise control over the line...
...narrow vote of 62-58, Gizenga's slate of seven candidates swept every office in the Chamber of Representatives; in the Senate, Gizenga supporters won five of the seven elective posts. The Congo's normally inert President Joseph Kasavubu was sufficiently stung by this rebuff to crossly remind the legislators that, as chief of state, it was his responsibility to name a Premier-designate-a strong hint that his first choice would not be Gizenga...