Word: steward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine distinction, Copeland is known to old family friends as "Motsy" and to top business aides as "Mots." He is far from being as aggressive, outgoing and articulate as most modern executives-but, then, his role as steward of the family company does not require those qualities of him. An inside man, Copeland seldom deals with anyone below general manager, rarely meets customers or suppliers, has little contact with the chiefs of other big companies, has never spoken with President Johnson or any Administration officials. He spends full time on top policy, helping to decide which men to promote...
...Steward of the DU Club has been red following his conviction last week on charges of attempting to bribe a Cambridge police officer and serving liquor to a minor. Mathew T. Smith, the steward involved, has appealed both convictions...
...large number of college boys in the summer, when jobs are plentiful; in the winter when the steady hands return and things tighten up, it may be months before someone in Group II (the best a college man ever achieves) could get a job. Most ship in the Steward's Department, where the money is; the more adventuresome may ship deck; no one ever goes through the engine room, which is hell in summer and on southern runs...
...romanticizing the life from the first, and it's necessary to counteract the impression immediately. If one word could characterize the vast majority of the hours, it would be boredom. In the Steward's Department, life is usually like that of any large hotel. Deck is more interesting, but you still sleep eleven hours a day, and would sleep more if you could. I've never met an officer who felt he had chosen the right career; for the crew, it's just wage-slavery. Hours on end I've looked into the wake, occasionally thinking but mostly glad...
Carefully kept from the locked-up jury was an even more unsavory aspect of life-and death-in Tony's union. During the trial, Walter Glockner, 27, a Dorn driver, Teamster steward, and a Pro foe, got into an argument with one of Tony's relatives at a union meeting, knocked him to the floor. Next morning Glockner was shot to death as he left his Hoboken home for work. He died just a week before he was to have kept an appointment with Justice Department officials to tell what he knew about the local...