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...slop, labeled "Poison for the Government," was then poured in tobacco tins and left to stew in the sun. Russell's daughter Kate says that the game was one of her father's ways of teaching his children that everything the government did was "completely misguided if not deliberately wicked." The game also indicates the degree of pleasure -both principled and perverse-that Russell derived from his nearly lifelong role as the loyal opposition to all forms of authority...
...started at 17, putting lids on cans of stew at Armour and Co., where she joined the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. In 1954 she became the first woman president of a packinghouse local; later she was appointed one of the meat cutters' five international representatives, and in 1974 director of its new Women's Department. The same year she was elected vice president of the new Coalition of Labor Union Women. She has persuaded the industry to promote women to more demanding, previously "male" jobs and convinced many skeptical women that they could perform them. Now, notes Wyatt...
...proposed boost in the taxes on commuters to the city was batted down by upstate Republicans; a sales-tax increase (from 8% to 9% in the city) was rejected by city Democrats. In desperation, the legislators began to concoct what Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson called a "bouillabaisse": a stew of taxes that added up to $205 million at the risk of offending most consumers in the city. In addition to an increase in the city income tax, the plan included higher levies on banks, automobiles and cigarettes, and new taxes on barbershops, beauty parlors and massage parlors. After...
Alfred E. Vellucci is a consummate political chef--every two years he stirs the ethnic stew of East Cambridge and gets re-elected to the Cambridge City Council The secret, says Vellucci, is Harvard--the most obvious representative of untaxed wealth, power and privilege in Cambridge, and an easy target for Vellucci when he feels like being a populist demagogue--"I ask people on the street, do you hate Harvard? They say yes, so I say vote for me, I hate Harvard...
...welcome any sea duty as a way to escape from royal protocol. On the Bronington, however, Charles may long to be a landlubber again. Explains Kelly Green, 23, a cook on the ship: "She is old and rocks a lot. In a gale I put a pot of stew on and tie it to the top of the stove. Nobody eats it anyway. Everybody gets seasick...