Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.A.W. among C.I.O. member unions, fought Reuther's election implacably, and the Steelworkers' candidate, C.I.O. Vice President Allan S. Haywood, was backed by more unions than Reuther. Among Haywood's supporters, however, were the smaller unions, such unlikely "industrial organizations" as the Barbers & Beauty Culturists, Department Store Workers, the Government and Civic Employees and the United Theatrical Workers. Reuther was backed by most of the big C.I.O. unions, including U.A.W., Rubber Workers, Textile Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and International Union of Electrical Workers. The vote...
...wife on his regular trips to the hospital often meant going without meals himself. Yet, childless for 43 years of marriage, they both loved children, and their greatest happiness came each year at Christmas time when Adrien was asked to don his red suit and play Santa at the store and at private parties and small, out-of-the-way shops...
...nation's Harvard Clubs has been a subtle blend of two strands of chauvenism. The first is local pride, which students bring to College with them and transform into Southerners Clubs and Chicago cliques; the second is Harvard pride, which graduates carry out of Cambridge and store up in great quantities in their local Harvard Clubs...
Family & Early Years: Born March 17, 1899, in Pinconning, Mich., where his father ran a general store. At 13, after finishing the eighth grade, he went to work as a mail boy for the Weston-Mott Co. (auto axles) in Flint. During World War I, he worked as an ammunition inspector in the Flint Chevrolet plant; after the war he opened a real-estate brokerage with his father. In 1929, he opened a Chevrolet agency which he built into one of the largest auto agencies...
...fact nonsense. His present hero, a city rabbit named Winthrop, is not conjured out of a top hat but from the place city rabbits normally come from-"a toy village enclosed by chicken wire and located in Section B, on the sixth floor of a big New York department store." Winthrop is first reduced from $2.98 to $1.78 because he proves not to be "colorfast, washable and docile"; then he finds himself out on his ear in the harsh world of Central Park, where he undergoes such painful experiences as being chased by a whippet and overhearing a chat between...