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...York history to organize the industry. In the late 19203 and early 1930s strikers and shop owners had fought in the streets with shivs and sawed-off pool cues. Knife-wielding Communists ripped and clubbed workers in a vain attempt to run them into a Red-led splinter group. But in 1932, Dubinsky moved up to the presidency of the parent garment union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, forced out the Communists, rallied the divided unionists, won concessions from management and steered labor into calm waters...
...refer to his record as a Perón fighter, promised to bring Peronistas back into Argentina's political life. That may have cleared the way for his endorsement by Peron. Balbin, tagged as the traditionally suspected "official" candidate, and running on the ticket of a Radical splinter party, could not match the competition...
...ring hollow. Because Ted Williams spits at fans and because he is impolite to sportswriters are not the reasons why he was bypassed as the Most Valuable Player in the American League. Even if the writers who rated Williams ninth and tenth had placed him first and second, the Splinter's revised point total still would have lagged behind Mantle...
...Prime Minister was still in the hospital, where a splinter from the bomb tossed into the Knesset last fortnight had just been removed from his leg. If B-G heard the news, he would undoubtedly have insisted on going to the funeral, and his doctor refused to accept responsibility for the consequences. Since B-G is an avid newspaper reader, Argov's friends persuaded Israel's editors to print special editions for the old man, without any mention of his aide's death. The state radio (Ben-Gurion never listens to anything but Kol Israel) omitted...
...burly truck drivers can make or break strikes in almost all key industries, and the Teamster bosses had let the word get out that they might be tempted to get even with the unions that voted against them. A morass of tie-ups, a campaign of raids, could splinter, perhaps even destroy the A.F.L.-C.I.O...