Word: steward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleventh duke will probably continue to live, with his wife and two children, in the modest country home which used to belong to the steward of the estate...
...present program was passed upon a Council recommendation which was in turn prompted by a statement from the Adams House steward, Robert T. Martin. Martin showed that there would be no additional expense in having Claverly students breakfast in Houses other than those to which they are assigned. The new plan will merely become part of the regular inter-House eating system...
...leadership of his International Longshoremen's Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union. One of Billy's cousins who did the same was later found drowned in the Hudson River. Billy McMahon lost only his job as steward of New York's Pier 32. By last week, after six months of waterfront warfare between the A.F.L and the old I.L.A., Billy McMahon had his job back, and the A.F.L. looked like a winner all around...
...NLRB is considering a new election, which the A.F.L. hopes to win. Dock Steward Billy McMahon thinks so. Happily planning to go back to work at Pier 32, he said: "This is very, very good. This is the beginning of the end for the old I.L.A...
...have already dropped as a result of the U.S. downturn. But Butler is cheerful; he likens the British reaction to an old lady on a cruise: "She locks herself up in the cabin and is a little seasick, more out of apprehension than because of rough seas. Then the steward knocks on the door and tells her: 'We are two days out, ma'am, and the weather is fine.' Now, like the old lady, we are walking the deck and feeling good...