Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a fellow," testified Zakman with reluctant admiration, "that did everything wrong, and organized better than the rest of them ... He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'Everybody out on strike.' He didn't believe in elections. He was a hard worker." Predictably, the organization of cab drivers failed, Zakman was eased out of the union, and Johnny Dio finished up in the driver's seat, using the union for his own devices...
...Frederick John Kasper, 27, was the headline defendant, a preening cock in his moment of glory. Kasper ran a bookshop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1953. A screwball without a cause, he seemed then to be a friend to Negroes, permitted solicitation of N.A.A.C.P. contributions in his shop, frequented interracial dances, kept company with a Negro girl. Yet after he bolted to Washington, D.C., his store rent unpaid, hundreds of inflammatory anti-Semitic pamphlets were found in the shop. And when the Supreme Court's decision on school integration was handed down, Frederick John Kasper found...
Wakaw was a town that drowsed six days a week, only to swarm on Saturdays with farmers in town to shop, socialize, swap drinks from common bottles, and sometimes blow smoldering feuds into bloody violence. Out of such a quarrel came the young lawyer's first case. The client: a farmer charged with shotgunning a neighbor to death. The trial came on John Diefenbaker's 24th birthday. The crown prosecutor made a solid case, and the judge issued a strong charge, all but directing the jury to convict. Instead, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Later...
...panned the gold with no properly staked claims, no disputes and no acts of violence. Most took away what money they needed for some long cherished possession and then quit. A few bachelors bought themselves wives. A few wives bought their freedom and the right to set up shop as independent prostitutes. Said one still faithful wife: "I work with my husband. He has bought a bicycle. This week I shall buy a sewing machine. After that, we'll give up gold mining." "I'll buy good things to eat, and some new clothes," said another. "Then...
...sham. In its last years, the Stalin regime was a pure autocracy. Stalin ruled through a personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names that ranked beside Stalin's in the Politburo and in the government ministries were those of privileged shop-window dummies and personal toadies whom Stalin switched around at will, and sometimes caused to disappear...