Word: taking
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Safeguards. Since they are positions of trust, union offices may not be occupied by Communists; ex-convicts (including those convicted of violating members' rights); leaders who take a loan bigger than $2,000 from union treasuries, embezzle union funds, or have conflicting business interests. Top penalty: $10,000, or one year in prison, or both...
...heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem who did appear...
...thing like that." "It's true," replied McCuistion, whereupon the other three prisoners chimed in to ask why Consuls Byrne or Donald Eddy had not come to talk with them during the past four weeks. Replied Consul Byrne: the U.S. military establishments are big enough to take care of four sergeants...
Well born and well educated, he waited until he was 33 to take his first fling at running for the legislative assembly, then lost. There was little losing after that. Duplessis represented Trois Rivieres in the assembly from 1927 until his death last week. He was Quebec's premier for five terms, longer than any other...
Although Predecessor Weise had stumbled over the issue of business-office meddling under McCall Corporation President Arthur Langlie, ex-Hearstman Mayes laid down the same law-and made it stick. "I'd rather shoot myself," he says, "than take any guff off the business side." From Good Housekeeping he brought with him a smooth team, including Managing Editor Margaret Cousins. Then Mayes began thinning out McCall's syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were...