Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur W. Sampson...
...York universities and colleges. Said he: "Let's get them in this year even though you will have to sacrifice some of your standards." The educators agreed as "a last resort" to sponsor an emergency two-year college for 12,000 ex-G.I.s at Sampson Naval Base near Geneva. Six upstate colleges will help supply about 1,000 faculty members; the state will put up the cash ($3-to-$5 million). Proposed name: Dewey College...
...hard-muscled members of the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association have grumbled at the highhanded, well-manicured leadership of bulky, redheaded Joseph Patrick Ryan. On Oct. 1, when 30,000 stevedores walked off the job in New York City, they revolted. Led by Eugene Sampson, business agent for Manhattan's largest local, 791, the rebels had balked at a Ryan-negotiated contract which gave them a 10?-an-hour pay increase and a week's paid vacation. Reason: it ignored their demands for smaller sling loads, larger working crews and a guarantee...
...Finally, Sampson made his peace with Joe Ryan. The end of the strike was proclaimed. But it did not end. Next day only 2,000 longshoremen went back to work. The rest had a new leader. He was William E. Warren, a 32-year-old newcomer to the I.L.A., and by the excited account of the Ryan crowd, a man who thought the A.F. of L. longshoremen could get a lot more out of life by joining the C.I.O. and Australian-born Harry Bridges' West Coast stevedores...
Speaking for the affirmative will be State Senator Edward M. Rowe '27, former debating coach, and Robert Brisbane 2G; they will be opposed by Jarvis Hunt '27, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate, and H. LeBaron Sampson '01. The moderator will be Representative Henry D. Winslow...