Word: strife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over Texas, the last shrouds of secrecy that enveloped his reclusive existence are finally being peeled away. And the disclosures are adding zing to the already roughhouse brawl over Hughes' financial empire, which was valued at $2.3 billion in the late 1960s. It is being racked by internal strife, buffeted by lawsuits and threatened by a plethora of alleged Hughes wills...
...agony behind for others. During his lifetime, he always played off both friends and enemies against one another and thus set the stage for the power struggle now under way. In the first months after his death, it seemed that the longtime Summa insiders and his heirs would avoid strife. Chester Davis, the pugnacious Wall Street lawyer who masterminded Hughes' long and ultimately successful legal battle against the Eastern financial Establishment regarding alleged antitrust violations at TWA, suggested that the closest heir, Houston Lawyer Will Lummis, 48, become chairman of the Summa Corp. at $180,000 a year...
...next day, delegates accepted the twelve-month rule, but at the cost of an ominous amount of internal strife. The opposition to the rule included delegates of the 1.9 million-member Transport and General Workers' Union and the militant 260,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member...
...daily press covers the new economics voraciously and impetuously. Details of Catfish Hunter's contract with the Yankees made staid front pages. Sports sections ring with the dull strife of labor negotiations. A hundred newspapers run performance summaries of what they call baseball's Millionaires' Club. The paycheck appears to have become more important than the batting average. The fans read. The fans respond. Alms for the owners...
...members of the strife-ridden United Mine Workers voted, last week for a president, the overriding hope was that the election would bring an end to the vicious internal bickering that has plagued the union for the past decade. Instead, the outcome of the three-way race seemed certain to aggravate the tension. The final tally will not be completed until July, but according to unofficial results, President Arnold Miller squeaked to a second five-year term with 40% of the vote. His archrival, Lee Roy Patterson, an influential member of the union's 21-member executive board, took...