Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Translated from family talk, that meant that Lyndon Baines Johnson, 49, tall (6 ft. 3 in. and, by the bathroom scales, 185½ Ibs.), dark and almost handsome, wanted to talk about what he was doing as majority leader of the U.S. Senate. And what Lyndon Johnson was doing last...
After the one-year Kohler contract ran out, the union demanded a broadened agreement, including a seniority rule in layoffs, dues checkoff, binding arbitration of differences. U.A.W. also called for a wage increase, but that was not a basic issue: pay scales at Kohler were about in line with the...
The biggest reason for the strike went much deeper than wages and was much harder to settle. It was, as one weary I.L.G.W.U. official said, that "we have just become too cozy with management." The top rulers in the union and management are old cronies. Together, they had streamed from...
The Long Way Around. Droning on, lolling back in his chair, Serge would ramble to the end of the story his children knew as they knew their own skins. For 40 years, he told them, Dennis drove out every afternoon to watch beside the lake for Florabelle. Then one day...
Firebird Suite. In Detroit, James Scales, 60, confessed that he set fire to the home of his 42-year-old beloved, explained: "I courted her with music, but she busted my guitar over my head."