Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have tenuous holds on their jobs. Moody was appointed by Williams to fill the seat vacated by the death of the late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams' opponent is Fred M. Alger Jr., public-minded heir...
...Benny Goodman Trio (Columbia LP). The King of Swing gets together for the first time in 13 years with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa to help out his old arranger, ailing Fletcher Henderson. The ensemble sounds surprisingly spry, playing such old favorites as Body and Soul, After You've Gone, Honeysuckle Rose...
...retreated from his original demand for a union shop to what labor called a "modified union shop" -and is, more accurately, a "revolving door" union shop. Under the new contract, all new employees must join the steelworkers' union, but if they don't like it, they can swing out the union door again between their isth and 30th day on the job. All steelworkers have the option of turning in their union cards during a 15-day period at the expiration of the contract in 1954. The union cannot touch old non-union employees...
...reach legal voting age, I am at a loss to understand . . . the dangerous and deplorable electoral system in this country which allows one individual to control, swing or influence such a large bloc of delegates that he could theoretically personally choose the next President...
...trifle awed when Freshman Macartney began setting out on Sundays to preach in nearby churches, wearing a high hat and a black tailcoat. Many of his colleagues have stayed awed ever since. For 47 years, Presbyterian Macartney, singularly unperplexed by theological doubts, scientists' criticism, or the pendulum swing of vogues, has been filling churches by preaching the same Gospel he learned at the Seminary...